* 240 Blackfriars, London Jacek Mlynarczyk
jacek mlynarczyk 14/06/1991 Bialowieska 52/31 54-234 Wroclaw, Poland 0048792637666 pl 00447871604877 uk jacekmlynarczyk@hotmail.com cargocollective.com/jacekmlynarczyk
education
The University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Architectural Studies 2012Wroclaw University of Technology, Architecture and Urbanism 2010-2012 High School III of Adam Mickiewicz, Wroclaw 2007-2010
work experience freelance house painter - Norway Ristorante Gallo Nero delivery driver - Poland Sixt vip limo service Euro2012 chauffeur - Poland Express Rent a Car driver - Poland
June - September 2011 - 2014 June 2013 June 2012 April - June 2012
languages English Polish German Spanish
fluent (ielts 8.0 2012) native elementary elementary
skills AutoCad, Revit, 3ds Max + VRay, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
other cycling, downhill skiing, motorsports, graphics, photography clean eu driving B license
3rd yr thesis
t o p l ay : s t r e e t c u lt u r e c e n t r e
Constantly expanding popularity of skateboarding and bmxing across the UK doesn’t always come together with a full understanding of its needs. The unique lifestyle combining sports, music, apparel and art induces demands as well as opportunities. However, a genuinely rebellious group is often not welcome or simply rejected from city centres. One of the reasons is damage to street furniture caused by ‘grinding’ and also that not everyone appreciates graffitis. Therefore, I decided to design a place dedicated to street culture and answering the need of Glaswegian skateboarders community for an outdoor undercover skatepark. Utilising a slightly forgotten M8 underpass and its raw concrete character, it brings the sport, the music, the dance and the art altogether, almost in the heart of the city. This kind design consists of a monocoque structure timber roof acting as a huge skating pool of varying depths and heights. Fillied with insulation
and covered with special plywood, the roof sits on glulam beams spanning between the existing concrete pillars that are carrying the motorway lanes. Utilisation of the pillars lets the wall to stay non-load bearing and not to touch the roof. However, the walls vary in heights regarding to interior functions. Resulting gap between them and the roof is filled with triple glazing giving more impression of lightness of the structure. The roof can be seen from the bottom unobstructed throughout almost the whole lenght ,as the long main volume goes along and in between the pillars, having few extensions where possible and necessary. What can be found inside is the most importantly an environmental lobby, skateshop with mini ramp, bike workshop, cloakroom, chilling spaces, café bar, spectating areas, stage and a backstage.
3rd yr studio
to live: dennistoun housing
Dennistoun is a district located in the East End of Glasgow. It has a significant industrial history and is often known by its social challanges as it has struggled with adaptation of Glasgow’s economic changes. However, the growth of community assets in the area has helped to make it a better place to live - new opportunities for social participation and capital increase have emerged. The housing project is a part of group made masterplan and sits in its northern east corner, adjacent to Duke St and Bellgrove St. The design proposal considers the cluster to have perimeter placed volumes creating a vast courtyard, which mimics traditional Dennistoun tenement urban planning. Western side makes a clear separation from the neighbouring cluster, though though stays totally permeable. It’s a visual barrier maintaining the alley’s boundary, yet encouraging to investigate the courtyard. There can be found intersecting walking paths with patches of green, multiple benches, bike sheds and centrally placed exit from common underground parking. The designed corner part includes elevated housing units of duplexes and triplexes, with commercial and retail spaces left on the ground floor with direct street access. The houses are reached from the courtyard via wide concrete stairs that act as a meeting point as well, or an adjacent lift. The bottom duplex flats are entered through semi-private gardens while the upper triplex flats are accessed with 2 staircases and screened galleries. The building’s structure is made of a concrete plinth hosting steel structure with SlimDek floors. Considered finish materials are precast concrete facade panels, pre-oxidised concrete casette panels and treated spruce fences.
2nd yr studio
To Learn: The St Andrews University Library The project is located at a historic site with a very strong relationship with the St Andrews Museum. The purpose of the library is to serve the University of St Andrews, the oldest in Scotland and one of the oldest in the UK. It plays a major role in the town that seems to be overtaken by students from all around the world, willing to study in a prestiguos place with a great heritage. The site is in proximity to many university buildings and on the way to the main campus from the largest student accomodation. At the same time it’s provided with more peace and quietnessthanks to the park’s boundaries and the reasonable distance from the main streets. It encourages to spend time studying outdoor in a nice and friendly surrounding. The concept comes from the dialogue of volume and shape with the existing museum’s building, creating an impression of one being able to be slotted into another. On the ground floor of the library, beside the glazed entrance and environmental lobby, we can find a cloakroom, waiting area, check-out counter, the office and the plant room. The last one has a separate entrance from the back and hosts a server, boilers and mhrv system unit. The entire floor hosting all the rest of the areas plus a small residential wing (for academic guests, with additional run of stairs leading from the outside) is elevated and sits on engineered timber structure on top of slanted timber columns fixed with foundation pile caps in triplets to carry loads from single columns on the first floor. A forest of columns appears between the ground and elevated floor, giving an outdoor shelter to people and bikes commonly used by St Andrews students for transportation. The elevated volume is wrapped in vertical honeycomb panels with sandstone finish. Some segments are fixed and some are turned into a rotatable louvre system, depending on the area they are adjacent to.
2nd yr studio
t o g at h e r : H o u s e o f w o r s h i p Inveraray is a small but an important town for Argyll and Bute in Western Scotland. Located on the shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, is surrounded by a beautiful landscape.The site chosen for the project is set on the souther way out of the town by the main street, becoming a welcoming landmark and staying in a dialogue with a church facing it from the north. Adjacent to the beach, the site gives a spectacular view over the loch and strenghtens the connection with water, an element so vital to islamic religion. The project is divided into two parts: the house of worship and the house of the religious guide, the imam. These two volumes are visually connected with a gate leading to the main outdoor space. All
covered with ivy, the gate gives a strong accent of green, a colour important to islam. The declaration of faith, Shahada, is fixed to its top and is clearly visible from the ground. To the main praying space lead separate male and female ablution areas. The area dedicated to woman and children had to be located at the back and is screened with translucent curtain for a symbolic separation. The whole interior is oriented towards the qibla wall, facing the direction of Mekkah. A stripe of glazing, the only source of natural light and a shallow pond of water create a gap that emphasises the qibla wall and its height, extended well above the rest of the volume.
2nd yr studio
t o w o n d e r : p h i l o s o p h e r ’ s r e t r e at
The Philosopher’s Retreat is placed on small quarry on a hill overlooking a small village of Kilmartin. As one of the richest concentration of prehistoric monuments and historical sites in Scotland, this area is quite a moody and thuoght-provoking place. It’s designed to host up to 12 philosophers at a time, each with a private study room/bedroom, few discussion areas and one main discussion chamber. The bottom volume houses all of the public activities, while the 2 upper volumes house
the private rooms. The angle between them helped to create a triangular patio enlighted with a lattice roof. The ground floor stays permeable and has links to the hills on both sides. However, the site’s elevation and a sequence of stair runs make the access unaccidental and interesting, turning it into a journey that ends below a majestic overhang sheltering the entrance. Alternately, a series of terraced ramps climb up to the same point.
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