Ivana Kafedjian | Bartlett MArch Application Portfolio 2021

IVANA KAFEDJIAN Applying for the Architecture MArch programme Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL 2021 Applicant ID 17022853

IVANA KAFEDJIAN APPLYING FOR THE MARCH ARCHITECTURE DEGREE UCL BARTLETT 2021 ivanakaf@gmail.com instagram: ivanakaf_arch +359888706776 Nationality: Bulgarian Date of birth: 18 April 1998

EDUCATION

AWARDS & CERTIFICATES

UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (RIBA Part 1)

EDITORIAL PICK AWARD IN THE “NON-ARCHITECTURE” COMPETITION: HEALING

2017-2020 BA (Hons) Architecture, First Class Honours Dissertation topic: “Radical liberalization of the housing sector?”

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2018-2019 BA Architecture, year abroad

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM

Designed a vision for a possible future of quarantine cities together with 4 students at TU Delft; Actively participated in the brainstorming stage and led the visuals preparation Entry:https://www.nonarchitecture.eu/2020/10/08/ disconnect-suspended-semi-public-spacesprotected-interaction/ 2020

July 2016 Pre-University Honours Programme: “The Urban Toolkit: Exploring the City”

BEDFORD TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP (WYSA)

A curious, responsible and enthusiastic BA Architecture graduate with a strong aptitude for teamwork, learning and dealing with complex tasks.

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SOFIA

Researched the townscape and walkability of the Pudong New Area, Shanghai; Presented my findings at an official event; Report: http://www.wysa.org.uk/bedford 2019

I have designed for both European and Southeast Asian culture & climate, demonstrating maturity, adaptability and understanding.

WORK EXPERIENCE

PROFILE

2012-2017 Summa Cum Laude (highest distinction)

AAA ARCHITECTS, SOFIA, BULGARIA September 2020- Present

COMPUTER SKILLS PROFICIENT

KNOWLEDGEABLE

AutoCAD Photoshop SketchUp InDesign MS Office

Revit Vray Illustrator ArchiCAD Rhino

LANGUAGES English: fluent German: wish to improve Bulgarian: native

I recently did an architectural survey for 3 mountain villas, built BIM models of them and am now designing their reconstructions. I am also leading the project for the extension of a countryside house.

I created a full 30-page presentation for a competition for the interior of the pharmaceutical giant Roche’s new building in Sofia. I selected furniture, materials, colours.

I also carry responsibility for the PR and online presence of the firm. I lead every aspect of the creation of a new website for the firm and communicate with platforms like ArchDaily, Archello and a number of Chinese and Colombian magazines.

DE-ARCH LTD, SOFIA, BULGARIA June-September 2020

Architectural visualizer for industrial buildings & storage facilities

GROVES NATCHEVA ARCHITECTS, LONDON August 2019

OTHER INTERESTS Circular economy in architecture Travelling: 44 countries visited Seeking new experiences Giving presentations Personal development Tennis (played for 10 years)

Built a precise model of a large overgrown site with preserved trees to help the studio integrate nature in the design (collaborated with a geography student); Presented model to the client, who referred to my work as brilliant

FULL SCHOLARSHIP Amsterdam course) 2016

at the University of

for academic excellence (summer

PRESIDENT’S

LIST DISTINCTION for exceptional academic achievements, 10 consecutive semesters 2012-2017

VOLUNTEERING & ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDY ABROAD AMBASSADOR University of Sheffield, 2019-2020

PARTICIPATE IN DESIGN (PiD), Singapore, 2019

Volunteered for a local non-profit architectural organization aiming to challenge Singapore’s top down approach to urban design; Communicated with residents about what they enjoyed in their everyday environment and what needed improvement

ANDY MARTIN ARCHITECTURE, LONDON

ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY

Completed drawings for planning permission, 2D & 3D renders, specifications, partial design of a penthouse in Westminster.

I held responsibility for a full mini-project on researching & installing wind barriers to an existing outdoor restaurant structure in Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross; I learned to communicate with suppliers and successfully combine materials and textures.

My work was regarded as super efficient

Established the first architecture society in the history of my high school; Organized lectures with guest speakers, student presentations, after-class workshops & a larger-scale public event for kids

June-July 2019

American College of Sofia, 2015-2017

CONTENTS

SHEFFIELD ROBOTICS INSTITUTE Academic- Y3 EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Academic- Y3 CRISPICO THE ROBOT Academic- Y3 A SPIRTIS’ PLAY Academic- Y2 DISCONNECT Personal- competition PROFESSIONAL WORK Professional

SHEFFIELD ROBOTICS INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM Location: Sheffield, UK GFA: 3500sqm Y3/Sem2 Tutor: Mr. Robert Blundell Academic

SHEFFIELD ROBOTICS INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM

Enhancement of the urban realm, respect to a sensitive context and flexibility of usage are the defining aspects of my proposal for a Sheffield Robotics Institute. The project interprets the weaving of 3 words together: robots, scientists and the public into a playful grid system of solids and voids. The main aims of my design were to bring transparency into the development of AI, educate people about robotics, let AI and humans learn to interact, and to engage people in the debate around the future of AI. The heart of the building is the Urban Living Room - an adaptive indoor city square which allows humans’ freedom and emotions to collide with robots’ logic-dependency and define the future of human-robot interaction. I took the project one step further by re-designing the city square in response to the City Council’s official plans to make it more inviting and usable.

UK

Sheffield

Heart of the City

Annotation of urban and environmental conditions on the site between Tudor Square & Norfolk St

The site as a sequence of inter-connected squares with views of city landmarks

BRIEF

DEBATE SPACE

TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

CLASSROOM

MUSEUM

OFFICES

ROBOT DEMONSTRATION SPACE

RECEPTION AREA

MANIFESTO

Bring transparency into the development of AI

Educate people about robotics

Let AI and humans lean to interact

Engage the public in the debate

INITIAL SPATIAL CONCEPT

Foldable spaces idea

Foldable spaces test

Folding?

Folding to move on rails to define spaces

A grid structure

Eventually stick to stationary defined volumes & a grid

3 DISTINCTIVE WORLDS

ROBOTS

SCIENTISTS

GRID

GRID-INTEGRATED VOLUMES

PUBLIC

Material setting for the different user groups

LARGER VOLUMES

Grid dissolves as it clashes with the outside world and volumes are formed

Section through Urban living room, Museum, Classroom, Debate Space, VR space, Tudor Square

Initial “spill out” concept

Spatial arrangement of volumes on site

HUMAN WORLD

I extended my project onto Tudor Square to propose an inviting garden-like design that merges with the urban living room concept on the ground floor of the Robotics Center to provide a comfortable atmosphere for city living in any season

Ground floor plan

Urban living room interior

ROBOT WORLD

FREE WILL ROBOTS

FRIENDLY ROBOTS

Robot presence in the building: friendly robots can interact with humans, while “free will robots” live in their own grid world

Fourth floor plan

Experience in Robot world: Robots vs. Humans

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The museum part of the building is located underground as a way to signify the past’s relation to the present (ground level). The museum hosts exhibits from different periods of the development of robotics, so it is divided into different areas: from a smaller scale space that accentuates detail (in automata) to a larger room with a futuristic atmosphere for the robots of the recent past

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At night the building’s facade comes to life

During the day, the screens project an image of stone

EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Location: Edinburgh, UK GFA: 1700 sqm Y3/Sem1 Tutor: Mr. Russell D Light Academic

EDINBURGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

The new home for the Edinburgh Photographic Society is located at an emblematic spot in the heart of the city: the famous Granny’s Green Steps. To mend the strong contrast between the club feeling it calls for and its highly commercial context, the building consists of 3 segments, going from public to private. The semi-private outdoor space associated with the gallery provides a new type of experience for the area and enriches the Grassmarket square. My design references the castle geometry, while the large frames serve as structure and shading for the gallery, and a sign of the building being civic.

The site is located at the foot of the Edinburgh Castle and is always present in the pictures taken from the bustling Grassmarket towards the historic landmark. Thus, with it being a Photography Club, I aimed to create a gentle design that enhances, rather than dominates the view.

Members

View from Grassmarket Square

Darkroom or digital suite facilities

Exhibit new work

Relax

Treat yourself

Art-lovers

Attend a photography session

General public

See the exhibition

Be excited by the view

Attend a talk or screening

Go in for a coffee

See some art

Treat yourself

Get a souvenir

Designing the user experience

Developing the architectural language

Space segmentation - from public to private

The site is on a south-facing slope, so it is important to carefully design the way the gallery is lit up. A north-facing space is less appropriate, as it would have to be tall and dominate the landscape. My building’s structure will incorporate ribs that diffract and disperse the light rays evenly in the gallery space, as well as create an exciting connection between the outside and inside.

Precedents

KEY SPACES

Section through Volumes 1 and 3, and courtyard

View of the first, most public volume

View upon entry in the gallery space

View of the mezzanine (quiet study) area

Bird eye view of the building (the yard was designed after the project’s completion)

Roof plan in context (with reworked yard space)

Ground floor

First floor

Second floor

Third floor

CRISPICO THE ROBOT Teamwork 2 weeks Y3/Sem1 Tutor: Mr. Robert Blundell Academic My role in the project: I took the most proactive role in the concept development, so I became the leader and organized the team’s activity together with 2 teammates- we distributed the tasks amongst the rest of the team according to everyone’s preference and made sure that things were moving on schedule.

In addition, I researched and designed the gear train, which was an integral part of the machine. I also composed posters for the exhibition, helped construct the machine and presented the result to the jury

CRISPICO THE ROBOT

As a group of 15 with a 2-week timeframe, we designed, laser-cut and built this functioning mechanism from scratch.

The basic parts that makeCRISPICO it up: gears, linkages, cams and followers, come together to create a train of motion that makes the mechanism look alive.

A uniformly running simple mechanism would always have uniformly running simple mechanism would always have theAsame output.

Human intervention guarantees a different the same output.

Human intervention guarantees a different result every time; repeated inaccuracy creates chaos whilst result every time. And repeated inaccuracy creates a mess but building history and breathing life into creation. also builds history and breathes life into the creation.

Confronted with a machine we test it, try it drawings, out and learn Comparing the machine’s drawing to human we how it behaves.

Once we understand it, we can start using emphasized on the human freedom for imprecision.

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The basic parts that make up Crispico: gears, linkages, cams and followers come together to create a train of motion that makes the mechanism look alive. Through fixing pens at key points we trace the movement that each component makes and the effect it has on the surface.

We ran Crispico and have exhibited what it can do on its own. We now invite you to work together with it and explore the difference you can make to its operation and output by including your human freedom for imprecision in its equation.

We started off from a general vision for the final product

Crispico in the making

Studying the technology behind the machine’s elements ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS and how they come together (team effort): ASSEMBLY DRAWINGS

A technical drawing of the machine, used for adjusting and laser cutting the side boards (the drawings above are a team effort; I participated in their design and technical preparation)

GEARS

LINKAGES

GEARS CAM AND FOLLOWER

The machine’s final output

REUSE FURNITURE STORE: A SPIRITS’ PLAY Location: Singapore GFA: 2500sqm Y2/Sem2 Tutor: Mr. Tomohisa Miyauchi Academic

REUSE FURNITURE STORE: A SPIRITS’ PLAY

A reuse furniture store which I had the freedom to develop as my own business. My studio’s strategy was to incorporate an old and run-down vernacular house from Southeast Asia and design an envelope for it. I chose a Clan Jetty house from Penang, Malaysia. Focusing on detail, I designed a short section, which when repeated in depth, formed the building itself. Just as old furniture, my building is heavy on narrative and embraces superstition, turning it into a marketing strategy. Playing with light and visibility, there is a strong sense of discovery when wandering around in the building, while the facade also serves as a shop window for drivers on the busy road and riders on the elevated MRT line. The tropical climate allows for completely natural ventilation, while the green roof provides a space to linger and a distraction for nearby residents from the view of the Chinese cemetery adjacent to the site.

The site location in Singapore

The Clan Jetti houses

The “infrastructure” around the Clan Jetti houses

Detailed long section through the building

SPIRITS’ PLAY: A REUSE FURNITURE STORE

Street elevation

LOCATION: SINGAPORE

The calmness of the interior vs. the street dynamics GFA: 2500sqm Feb- April 2019

With a brief requiring a reuse furniture store with storage area and a workshop, we were given the freedom to develop it as our own business.

My studio’s strategy was to incorporate an old and run-down vernacular house from Southeast Asia and design an envelope for it. I chose a Clan Jetty house from Penang, Malaysia. Focusing on detail, I designed a repeatable short section, to which some adjustments are made in depth to form the building itself. Just as old furniture, my building is heavy on narrative and embraces superstition, turning it into a marketing stratenar gy. Playing with light and visibility, there is a strong sense of discovery Shop window detail when wandering around in the building, while the facade also serves as a shop window for drivers on the busy road and riders on the elevated MRT line. The tropical climate allows for completely natural ventillation, while the green roof provides a space to linger and a distraction for nearby residents from the Chinese cemetery in immediate proximity to the site.

Roof detail

Simplified second floor plan

Roof detail

disCONNECT Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Teamwork Competition “Non-Architecture” Competition: HEALING 2020 Award: Editor’s Pick Personal project My role in the project: developing the concept and its appearance, defining the views of the 3D model and the composition of the images, turning the renders into colorful and exciting posters

Social inequality, loneliness, immobility: these were the words flooding our everyday lives during the weeks of quarantine. Forced to stay indoors, we painfully observed how what we considered almost human rights, like access to greenery, sunlight and fresh air, turned into a luxury often available only to the privileged few. Our proposal embraces a scenario where residents are quarantined in small clusters of blocks, and introduces a usable and uplifting outdoor setting to

help battle the aforementioned pressing issues. The installation of a set of elevated meandering pathways at alternating proximities ensures safe interaction, while simultaneously transforming the repetitive buildings’ roofs into a green and diverse environment. The chill, sports and adventure tracks target specific users, suggesting appropriate speeds and activities along their one-way routes. The variety of platforms protruding from the thematic paths allows

residents to find some personal space and exercise, relax, play and work in a safe but dynamic environment. Providing a space for holistic healing both for the residents and for the monotonous urban tissue by introducing diversity, colour and identity, our proposal takes a strong stand for the importance of equality of access to outdoor space for securing the welfare of quarantined communities.

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арх. Асен Милев

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Location:ЮгBulgaria GFA: various 2020-2021 Professional

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арх. Ангел Захариев

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А и А Архитекти ООД, 1715 София, Бизнес Парк София, сграда 1А, ет.3, (+359) 898 921102, www.aaa.bg

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I recently did an architectural survey for 3 deserted mountain villas, built BIM models of them and am now designing their reconstructions, turning 2 of them into food booths and one into a guesthouse. The drawings on this page are of the smallest villa, which I am transforming into a snack booth with the option to prepare sandwiches and warm breakfasts.

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Villa 1 section reconstruction proposal

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I am also leading the project for the extension of a countryside house- I am adding a new residential floor with a steel structure and designing a new roof for it, as well as turning part of the backyard into a new dining room and kitchen.

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IVANA KAFEDJIAN Architecture MArch Bartlett School of Architecture ivanakaf@gmail.com +359 (0) 888706776