PORTFOLIO Julia Aleksandra Pawłowska SELECTED WORK 2017-2021
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CONCEPT DESIGN THE EXCHANGE HALL - PROFESSORS : RYAN NEIHEISER | XRISTINA ARGYROS THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION - PROFESSOR : MARIA FEDORCHENKO
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CONCRETE ACOUSTICS - [ HIGH PASS AWARD ] - PROFESSORS : DANAE POLYVIOU | CHIARA TUFANELLI BEDFORD SQUARE ARBORETUM - PROFESSOR : CIARAN MALIK
COMPANY WORK SOVIET STAR
MISCELLANEOUS MAYA WOOD WORK MODEL MAKING HAND DRAWING
THE EXCHANGE HALL LOCATION Poland - Krakow TYPE City Hall Design INTERVENTION: Rejuvenation of Typology
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Seam in the Ground Manipulating the Ground Plane
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Seam in the Ground Manipulating the Ground Plane
THE EXCHANGE HALL
THE BRIEF
My projects ambition developed towards the creation of a hybrid city hall typology. The location of the investigation was Kraków Poland, the city without a city hall. By analysing the burdened past of Krakow and understanding its future trajectories I decided to explore a duo programmatic commercial-administrative alternative for the traditional typology. Using the history of the symbolic city hall the ‘Ratusz’ which used to exist on the main market square - the Rynek, which was demolished in 1820 by occupying Austrian forces it became evident commerce was always closely tied with all political matters in the city.
The administrative typology of past and present Krakow has always been connected to actions associated with commerce. The Ratusz acted as a taxation booth, and a currency exchange from the 13th to the 17th century. The exploration of the connections between commerce and administration allowed for the placing of the proposed building with its past as well as present context. Krakow at its peak political and economic prosperity relied on the connections of commercial exchange and political institutions.
Poland possesses a very unique cultural condition, which, especially during the years when the country was in greatest disrepair, helped people remain connected and aware of the events around the country. Due to the scarcity of all consumable products during the Cold War under the Soviet Union, people embraced the idea of non currency trade. This practice remains common until today with the Exchange Hall project exploring the idea of barter trade as a new mode of connection between politics and commerce.
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ABSURDITY OF SHORTAGE
In prolonged abundance lays an organised, organic flow. In abrupt artificial shortage lays chaos, and disjointed flow. When the shelves held nothing but vinegar, halls were filled, shelves observed. Abundance came, the crowds disappeared, the comfort arrived, and convenience replaced fear and accumulation. Abundance created stability, but shortage catalysed dialogue. The balance for exchange and comfort demanded the limitations of PRL and the freedom of now, the reintroduction of the collective conversation and self satisfaction. The shelves equipped as the inhabitants see fit.
A SUSPENDE
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The threshold calls, separated, guiding. Pa closed off. Door. The stair filled gallery em
Still time, one book, second
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led terraced hall. The appointment hasn’t d family memoirs, level two home made up is deposited among the remedies, but he bag heavily.
assing conversations, suspended in the air, merges, one level, second level, arrived.
d book... Tax booth in sight.
FINITE-INFINITE BIURO
The solitary tower reminds of the precious archive it held. Hidden around stairs and small platforms. The administrative existed as a separate entity, visited daily, with the archive already archaic in its use. The vertical tower, the linear cubicle arrangement clashed and reformed to coexist in one space. The archive didn’t loose its vertical grandness, neither did the cubicle its linear arrangement on a grid. Rather, creating together a multi-dimension.
THE EXCHANGE HALL Looking at the morphology of the city of Krakow and testing possible forms for my proposal by exploring different structural logics.
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V-RAY RENDER - Night time ambiance
ENSCAPE RENDER - Light quality test
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TECHNICAL THESIS PROJECT COMPONENT - PROFESSORS : NINA McCALLION | ANNA MESTRE
My technical study investigates and explores adaptive reuse in the form of experimental preservation of unused heritage and its capability to inform and enhance the usability of new structures. In particular the study focuses on the archaeological excavation site located underneath the existing paving of the Rynek as well as the preserved old Ratusz bell tower. The structural logics of the new and old city hall will be revealed in the building to provoke a conversation about the importance of integration of structures from a multitude of epochs. Additionally, the study also discusses the importance of the inclusion of historical ephemeral trace and its value in tension with physical historical remnants.
THE EXCHANGE HALL
The original interior of the tower had limited circulation benefits. The staircase was narrow, irregular with eroded stone steps and the entrance was no longer usable after land excavation for the new City Hall. To improve the usability of the tower the old entrance and staircase were removed.
The new proposed interior was to be made out of a steel stair system and elevator core, with exits to the three levels of the City Hall.
CONCRETE ACOUSTICS MATERIALITY
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ENVIRONMENT
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A R I LOCATION A T I O N UK - London TYPE Building Adaptation INTERVENTION: Facade Application
Based on the third iteration of our intital tests, we have created six variations of modules, each with different perforations for different areas to maximise sunlight and sound deflection. Size: 1000mm x 1000mm x 300mm.
CONCRETE ACOUSTICS
Model Fabrication - Basic Alpha plaster poured into a CNC foam mold (model co-creators: Linden Seddon and Joanna Chau)
Together in a group with Joanna Chau, Małgorzata Tchorzewska, Linden Seddon and Bora Malko we developed a facade for our technical studies investigation to improve the acoustic comfort in our case study building of Portchester House in London. We took into account the sustainability and manufacturing variables to best adapt our design creating a sustainable concrete cladding facade system. The project aim was to maximise internal acoustic comfort to provide the whole building with s similar amount of noise protection. We wanted to create an environment where every room in the building would be a comfortable sleeping environment, with the minimum impact of daylight being taken away from the inhabitants.
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Just before the wall elements are assembled, the recess discs or bolts fitted for protection are removed from the foundation anchor sleeve. Then the PFEIFER PAP Anchor Bolts are screwed in. The precast concrete wall elements are then set into their final positions with the aid of positioning discs and aligned. After the anchor plate has been fitted the nut can be tightened. (Source: JPN.com.sg) 45
up view of the building with the proposed applied to it.
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Render showing the facade from the int one of the rooms in the building.
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CONCRETE ACOUSTICS
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION LOCATION Italy - Milano TYPE Conceptual Provocation INTERVENTION: Rejuvenation of Existing Typology
TYPOLOGICAL CONVERSION
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
FUTURE
SUSTAINABILITY
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION
THE BRIEF
The project attempted to rethink the relationship between post-industrial architectural legacy and the new global production technologies, testing a new pattern for urban concentration and re-programming of factory sites. The project begins with assessing and uncovering the different incarnations of the post industrial European cities rust belts; abandoned, presumably obsolete skeletons of 20th century industry; as well as the lingering diagram of the Fordist and PostFordist “production processes”.
The primary objective of the projects research is not to entirely dismiss the industrial typology, but rather revive it and incubate its future development. The project conducts a site experiment, using a converter, which explores and advances the understanding of a new experimental model of a future factory; governed by process management and spatial organisation using both material and immaterial systems.
The project addresses a common challenge in European cities for the tackling of large scale “rust belt” patches. However, not by using filler cultural and art programs, disconnected with the original uses of the site. Rather, the project embraces the original uses of the sites and converts them according to their use and location in the city. Further, due to the continuous issues with premature outsourcing of industry the project wants to re-localise and network European industrial hubs. It suggests that a limited number of condensed, multipurpose, ecologically safe complexes could help bridge local and global economies of “production”, while helping the city to utilise its architectural resource to transition into the future.
By acknowledging the importance of industrial foundations and functionalist convenience in the Fordist production sheds, the project proposes a new factory concept nested inside the old shell. Although the shell is a relic, the project accepts it as a necessary experimentation site for the development of new production processes. Therefore it primarily “preserves” the programmatic legacy, and restores the continuity of the old and new production systems of the city.
By assigning control to artificial intelligence on site, the project explores a new prototype for machine design as well as a new human-less industrial typology. Here no longer the system is confined to its incubator sheds, rather it expands as an infinite grid matrix of information, logistics and movement to form an “atomic industrial cloud”. The system exists beyond a plane, it cannot be confined to a circuit model but rather a theoretical organised chaos. This matrix houses the hearts of the European factory of the future.
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION
The project initially investigated the urban condition of Moscow, looking at the abandoned rust belt ring around Moscow, in particular the case of the ZiL Plant. From there the investigation moved to Milan to the mostly abandoned Innocenti Factory.
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION The illustration depicts a “machine deployer”, an AI system capable of organising the robotic workers inside my new Milanese meta factory. The illustration style was inspired by H.R. Giger’s Birth Machine artwork.
For the benefit of understanding the needs of my new factory workers, I decided to design them and see how they would move and inhabit the space of the factory.
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION
The time evolution of the arrangements of the future factory, and its potential physical form in the far away future as a drone sorting facility.
THE CITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION
SWAYING MICROCOSM - MAYA EXPERIENCE GEOMETRY MAYA MODELLING
TYPE Furniture Design INTERVENTION: Functional Object
SWAYING MICROCOSM - MAYA
THE BRIEF
My concept began with the motion of rocking, and how conventional rocking chairs allow only back and forth movement. I wanted to challenge this constrain and I began looking at shells and played with möbius strips to develop a design in which its users could rock themselves sideways like in a crib as well as back and forth. Through my research I learned rocking chairs help reduce stress and are used in therapy to calm patients. I understand what it is like to feel overwhelmed with the external environment which led me to consider enclosing my möbius design in some type of shell. My object is an escape pod, it is like a snails shell, a place of comfort. I wanted to remove the user from the exterior environment for them to experience detachment and see the world through a distorted, out of context surrounding.
SWAYING MICROCOSM - MAYA
BEDFORD SQUARE ARBORETUM LOCATION: UK - London TYPE Specialised Building INTERVENTION: Climactic Optimisation
CARBON FOOTPRINT CLIMATE MATERIALS
BEDFORD SQUARE ARBORETUM
THE BRIEF
The project aimed to expand our technical knowledge in structural design, environmental factors and materials. In Third Year, the environmental technical studies course tasked us with the creation of individual sustainable pavilions and the creation of an arboretum as a group to occupy Bedford Square. The arboretum was suppose to cater to one species of tree we were assigned as a group. The course covered introductions to scheme design, foundation design, large span structures as well as consideration for different environmental design factors. We were asked to create a pavilion and arboretum in accordance to construction norms. A key aspect of the task was design integration between the different specifications each team member was suppose to explore. The ultimate goal of the project was to create a structurally sound and zero carbon building, to show our ability to consider the different branches of technical studies in an effective manner.
TWINMOTION RENDER - Created with all 2 other team members
COMPANY WORK
SOVIET STAR - KARTA ARCHITECTS
During my summer internship at Karta architects I was involved in two projects, the Yalta Yandex development scheme and the development of a conceptual master-plan of a unused factory site in Saint Petersburg. The client asked for a combination of temporary residential and commercial typologies to be distributed around the site.
My task was to visualize the potential spaces where commerce and residential would interact and how these spaces fit the Saint Petersburg city context. I developed proposal plans for the different types of residential spaces to be housed in the old industrial buildings as well as diagrammatic master-plans to propose different combinations of programmatic saturation on site.
MISCELLANEOUS MODEL MAKING WOOD WORK HAND DRAWING
SKILLS
COMMITMENT
DETAILS
Stockholm Erikdalsbadet Swimming Pool Proposal - Model Fabrication CNC’d blue foam, painted with white acrylic
Stockholm Erikdalsbadet Swimming Pool Proposal - Model Fabrication Ultimaker 3D printed roof component
Stockholm Erikdalsbadet Swimming Pool Proposal - Model Fabrication Lasercut card with laser printed acetate
Stockholm Flower - Model Fabrication Lasercut acrylic gears and mdf frames, nuts and bolts installed to allow for module movement - manually mechanised system coated with thermo-chromic paint
Original Image The Imagination Building by Ron Herron, London
Imagination Building Photographic Model Fabrication Lasercut MDF and acrylic, spray painted in silver and white with tensile polyester roof.
In my foundation year I participated in a design field trip to the AA’s second campus, Hook Park. At the wood workshop we were asked to design an installation which could be used in the forest surrounding the workshop. I wanted my object to provide its user with the experience of the forest, rather than the object being an experience in itself. I installed my octagonal hanging chair near a creek, providing sensory experience while allowing the user to rest and appreciate their surroundings with minimal infliction upon the environment.
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