Portfolio for TU Delft _ Ivan Protasov

IVAN PROTASOV

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

protasov.ee1@gmail.com +380 98 201 2280

Vulytsia Borysa Hmyri 5, app.8 02140 Kyiv Ukraine

my motivation to study architecture Contents Along with other disciplines, architecture always excited me the most, because it always seemed for me as something physically real; when after a building is complete, one can touch it by hands as well as use it in practical ways.

An important point is that architecture is one of the most powerful components which influences human’s life – one can feel the space from the inside as well as perceive the shape from the outside. So in the design process it is very important to make a start from the processes in human life and interrelations in society.

And finally, architecture is a creative work where I can apply my knowledge in math, science, human relations and practice in arts.

1 | Ch14 professional project 2 | cultural center bachelor diploma project 3 | HU 40-60 academic project 4 | the Dovzhenko cinema museum professional project 5 | research of material behavior and modular structures academic research project

* All visualizations, drawings and photographs have been done by myself unless otherwise stated.

Ch14 private house professional project design _ january - september 2014 (8th school semester) construction _ september 2014 - may 2016 (expected) location _ Kyiv, Ukraine team _ individual project my role in the process _ designing, structural calculations, architectural and technical supervision during the construction my exact contribution to the project _ designing, search of the right structural solutions, calculations of construction, search of the building materials, thermal calculations, architectural and structural supervision, and also working as a contractor during interior work the supervisor of the project: during the early design stages and roof calculation I had consultations with Prof. Luigi Fiumara, lfiumara@gmx.net

Architectural idea The one-stored old building represents calm horizontal movement, however the new two-stored part demonstrates a contrast vertical movement (and the middle connecting part highlights it), but in the same time the contrast does not outgrow in a confrontation and the entire building is perceived as a single whole. The main face of the new facade is slightly rotated to the side where most of the time people come from, which makes a welcoming gesture.

Another important aspect of the project is the unity of form and function, which represents not only the unity of the inside and the outside through the big doors and windows, but also the complex design from door-handles and handrails up to the building as a whole.

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The roof bearing structure consists of ten wooden trusses with different geometry which were assembled on the site.

masterplan The site is located in a calm district with a medium density of buildings. There is the forest nearby.

The plot assigned for the construction was really narrow, which added some contrast to the main shape idea.

It was also submitted with clients to change the boundary line (in order to give some space of the plot to the street) to allow convenient parking for two guest cars.

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One of the main parameters of the roof incline was sufficient insolation of neighbor’s territory

� The house after the reconstruction includes kitchen and dining room, as well as private space (two bedrooms and a washroom) in the old, one-stored part of the house; public area on the first and private space (three bedrooms, washroom and kitchenette) on the second floor of the new part.

An obtuse angle between the walls of the old part and the new one on the western side embrace a comfortable place where one can chill out on a terrace, moreover the balcony on the second floor creates an additional protection from rain. The place is a logic closure of the courtyard with the garden and a wide lawn.

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cultural center with two concert halls and public space academic project *the project was published in Ukrainian magazine “Architect� design _ september 2014 - january 2015 (9th school semester) location _ Kyiv, Ukraine team _ Igor Davidov, Ivan Protasov my role in the process _designing, making drawings, schemes, layout my exact contribution to the project _ rough development of the concept of the basic shape, development of a main public space on a ground level, total study and elaboration of two concert halls with all acoustic features and auxiliary facilities (including additional consultations with philharmonic conductor and technicians), constructing schemes and making drawings. the supervisor of the project: Prof. Sergei Yunakov, wecanall@ukr.net Architectural idea Since the plot for the project is located on an island (on the Dnipro river) and is pretty much disconnected from the city, we decided to take an inspiration from the river and create a standalone complex with its own climate.

The basic concept of the shape was behavior of river streams.

We investigated basic forms that arise from the interaction of rivers with different soils. River flows were compared with primary pathways of movement of people within the building. Based on the comparison, we identified various areas for active and passive recreation, the location of restaurants, auditoriums, halls and lounges.

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public space, restaurants small and big halls technical space staff, rehearsal and hotel rooms parking (1100 cars)

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The underground level provides supply of all items for every facility located in the building, with one massive freight elevator (which leads directly to the storage of the big hall), three freight elevators for the restaurants and other facilities. The level has also a parking place for 760 vehicles and the back entrances for all the facilities.

In the northern part of the floor, there are main wardrobe and different storages from the restaurant and other facilities.

On the levels 3 and 4 there are main entrances and auxiliary facilities of the small hall and big hall respectively.

Also an autonomous auditorium space (shown on a third floor) which is located between 3rd and second level.

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constructions buildup - steel structure of the main shape - steel halls shell structure - concrete floorplate, main columns and beams - grid of concrete beams over the parking level (the step is 8,4m) - concrete columns, ground plate and piles

Evacuation of people from the building in case of fire was a very important issue in the project.

Evacuation from all levels is made through the staircases with the increased pressure inside and a maximum distance between ones of 30 meters. Evacuation from the console on the right (where auxiliary hall facilities are situated), which is 45 meters long, and from art gallery space, is carried out on the non-combustible roof from where people would be taken by the helicopter or a fire ladder.

zoning buildup - small and big hall - common spaces - main administration areas - art gallery - hall’s auxiliary facilities

fire escape buildup - roof made up of non-combustible materials - small and big halls with the connected water reservoirs - fire escape staircases

Renderings by Igor Davidov

HU-40-60 reconstruction of the high-rise building academic project *the project won the first prize in the category “reconstruction� on the international competition of designing of multifunctional complex on Hallesches Ufer 40-60 in Berlin, Germany design _ march - may 2014 (8th school semester) location _ Berlin, Germany team _ individual project my role in the process _ elaborating the concept, making drawings, schemes, renders and layout my exact contribution to the project _ development of the concept to make the tower a part of the street movement, elaboration of the floorplans on every level, facade shape studies the supervisor of the project: Sergey Nivin, nivina@voliacable.com

The competition, organized by CG Gruppe in Berlin, included 2 stages: there was a small workshop – organized for participants, where students from different universities within the Europe (ones like TU Delft, TU Graz, KNUCA and others) met customer requirements and formulated the concepts; on the second stage we developed individual projects and selected ones went to the presentation in Berlin.

There is a office complex - 97 high (previously owned by Deuthe Postbank, built in late 70-th) which should be reconstructed in a residential complex.

Architectural idea The population of the Kreuzberg district, where the plot situated, inhabits people of different nationalities and makes a very dynamic impression of the life there. Also, 34% of the residents are immigrants.

However, an impression which the building of the Deutsche Postbank makes seemed to be absolutely out of time and context.

So the idea was to involve movement from streets to the building by making terraces and roof accessible for public.

Concept The existing building looks like a separate brick which is completely disconnected from a street movement.

An ordinary idea of a residential high-rise is that there are cheaper flats on the first floors and as higher the flat is situated, as more expensive it is. Typically, there are penthouses on top with incredible views on the city which seems like only very wealthy people have an access to it.

So the idea of the project is that every person could go up and chill out on top. That will also connect the tower with the streets at the bottom.

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1st block: commercial zone lower terrace 2nd block: flats upper terrace 3rd block: flats green roof with special climate and trees

groundfloor The proposed building is divided into three blocks; with the public terraces between them.

Each block has a different quality: - first one is commercial; - second one consist of small 2-stored flats; - third one has single-stored flats for families with children.

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The proposal for the upper block is ordinary middle-sized flats for families with children.

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Relying on the statistics, many businesses nowadays function through the internet without leaving home, so the proposal for these flats is to divide them in two stores: first one for work and second one - for living.

This allows young families or friends live and work at the one place.

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Terraces have public access and resting places for all social groups.

The very low one is located on top of the commercial block and have an access from the cafe.

Besides public access, the roof garden has a special climate with unique trees to create an outstanding environment. This could help to invite more people on top and make it more dynamic.

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the DOVZHENKO cinema museum reconstruction of a cinema museum professional project, competition design _ october 2015 location _ Kyiv, Ukraine team _ Iurii Kaigorodtsev, Kirill Tsuman, Liubov Titarenko, Jevgen Kuchmin, Anna Potanina, Kristina Beletska, Artem Bilyk, Ivan Protasov my role in the process _ design, constructing schemes and layout my exact contribution to the project _ designing and modelling of the main transit ramp for visitors according to the museum history and big stands which form the space between them, drawing schemes, layout the supervisor of the project: Iurii Kaigorodtsev, kaygorodcew@gmail.com

The main idea of the project design is a determination of the main path which visitors take and which explains the history of development of cinematography. This path is designed according to the project requirements and showpieces avaliable in archive. There are guiding lines on the floor which go through ramps connecting different zones of different character; each of the zones reveals technical and creative process of making a movie.

Additionally, the path of exposure accompanied by 3d projections and holographic images, which discloses a virtual potential of cinematography.

Along the path, a visitor meets interactive expositions, which show the history, ideology and a current state of the cinema art and film production.

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Dynamics of the space is reached by the contrast between flowing forms of the ramps and stands and straight vertical shapes of existing concrete walls, which helps to highlight a complexity and diversity of the cinematography and its correlation with other arts.

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research of material behavior and modular structures through workshops and work with students academic project

This project consists of four workshops and preparation through research and prototyping.

design _ started in august of 2013 location _ Kyiv / Odesa, Ukraine

Main themes of the research are modular structures, material behavior and computational methods of optimization of the process.

During the workshops we go from analogue to digital and then from digital to analogue to transfer in the end of the day what we are actually producing into something real.

team _ Kirill Tsuman, Iurii Kaigorodtsev, Liubov Titarenko, Iurii Petreniuk, Anna Levadna, Ivan Protasov my role in the process _ researching and prototyping, tutoring during the workshops my exact contribution to the project _ responsibility for the materials selection (mainly sheet materials, such as different polymers, plywood, metal) and revelation of its behavior; adapting the process of transferring analogue models into a digital ones and back; lectures and practical work with students. the supervisor of the project: Kirill Tsuman, kirill.tsuman@gmail.com

Another important goal of the workshops was research and constructing of a system which one can apply to different design tasks, such as different geometry or material selection or various functional needs; therefore we used Grasshopper with its various add-ons.

We grounded our position of doing this research through lectures and practical work with students, which opens lots of possibilities and new incredible ideas during the work.

Besides this, we paid a lot of attention to the social component as well as the design of the workshop flow itself.

Essential item of the project was learning and teaching of digital production with the idea to have more freedom in the design process. *Photographs and drawings in the project are made mostly by students

flexibility workshop exploring materials

The idea of the workshop consisted of trying to work with different materials and exploring its diverse possibilities.

There were three main trends: - origami structures - stick flexible structures - kirigami structures (based on a combination of slots on sheet materials) I was doing research in origami and was resposible for the trend.

Geometry As a basics for practical work we took origami tessellations, as a method which have certain geometrical regularity and could be used in architecture in any scale. I based the research on a Ron Resh volumetric tessellations and his analysis of the task.

Materials Firstly, we did mockups out of paper, then we started to test it in different sheet materials (such as PP, PE, PET, PVC, kraft paper, tracing paper and its combinations) and finally we chose ones which fits the most. Each project had its different material.

Exhibition Most of final projects were exhibited on a festival of modern art in Kyiv as art installations, principles and geometry that can be implemented in architecture.

FSG workshop

flexible stable geometry After the previous workshop we chose origami trend as a perspective one.

On this workshop, we’ve defined two main trends: - modular pavilionns/canopies - furniture design.

Geometry Through creases and bends we’ve learned to create stable structures out of single sheet. An inspiration partly came from products of Douwe Jacobs and Tom Schouten (FLUX).

Materials Initially we did mockups out of paper, then started to test polymer sheet materials on already created patterns and changed it according to characteristics of each material behavior.

During the designing, a lot of attention was paid to the dimensions and particular qualities of laser cutter and creasing cnc machine. For connection of modules, we used cable ties as well as staples.

Exhibition The resulting products were exhibited in several public locations in Kyiv and Odesa.

cardboard workshop exploring cardboard

During the preparation for the next workshop, as a main theme we decided to take cardboard, as a cheap and available material which has sufficient rigidity and is easy in processing.

The main course was about modular pavilions but there were also several furniture projects.

Materials The very early mockups were done out of paper, but the main experiments were carried out with cardboard, real-scale.

Big attention was paid to connections between modules.

In joints of modules we used cable ties. Since we did not found any suitable software which could calculate internal tensions in such structures out of cardboard, we did all experiments empirically.

Exhibition All pieces of furniture and pavilions were presented on two exhibitions of modern art in Kyiv.

IMS workshop

interlocking modular systems The idea of the workshop consisted in creation of reconfigurable modular structures, when it is possible to assemble table/chair/ space partitions/shelves from one type of module.

Materials Plywood was chosen as a main material. It has all necessary strength characteristics for the realization of the idea.

On the early stages of research and for small mockups on the workshop we used cardboard.

During the whole workshop, we had a possibility to use a milling cnc machine, which was very helpful because of giving us the possibility to test the structure in plywood right away.

Exhibition Final products took part in the exhibition of furniture and building materials in KyivExpoPlaza.

conclusion I see architecture as one of the most powerful instruments which makes a direct influence on people, so I realize a responsibility I take after constructing of a building, therefore I need to be sure I considered all the features in the project.

After trying myself in real practice, it gave me solely new motivation to continue to study architecture as a master’s program.

Sincerely, Ivan Protasov