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a city without objects , dundee - year 5 a knowledge surface , dundee - year 4 professional
eastcourt , garden studio, charlcombe lane, bath - 2019 park cottage , landscape design, lower south wraxall - 2020 westonbirt school , masterplanning, gloucestershire - 2020 north road , housing development, bath - 2020
(Architecture, Essay on Art, 1796-7)
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We traditionally think of the city as a collection of buildings and streets. The carcentric city, however, is shaped by flows. It isn’t a city where the experience of the street matters, nor is it a city where the public hall is of any importance. Instead, departure and destination become the project of priority, and everything in-between becomes an other - an object. The city’s objects are legitimated by the space or, in architectural terms, the ground that urban sprawl provides.
Here, psychoanalysis and architecture find each other in close proximity. Rossi’s Analogous city and the unconscious, as manifested in Freud’s concept of dreamwork, are the only fields where objects are blurred, reconfigured, substituted, merged, condensed, and displaced, but not destroyed.
The city without objects is a speculative project that is conducted mostly through freehand drawing, photography and exploration of physical models. These methods open up a conceptual space that gives freedom to think across the humanities. In this sense, it is similar to the speculative nature of Berlin: A Green Archipelago and Yona Friedman’s Spatial City. This same speculative possibility of architecture is explored by the practices of the Soviet constructivists, Superstudio, Archizoom, Archigram, OMA, Cedric Price, Dogma, to name a few. The proposition is a prolegomenon to any future urbanism that may emerge as a city. 1
1. Immanuel Kant, ProlegomenatoAnyFutureMetaphysics (1783)
The project discusses the intricate relationship between seeing and perceiving, representing, and making the city. The process is one of thinking by iterative making. The text is, therefore, led by the drawings. The project addresses the future by critically reading and communicating the present.
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Our cities are increasingly characterised by careless expansion and wasteful development. They negate ideas of togetherness and collective life. Instead, cities resemble compartmentalised infrastructured fields interconnected by the car.
Against this scenario, this project imagines a dense city where objects, such as they exist, do not have the binary logic of figure-ground. The basic datums of this city are not space, buildings and circulation; its fabric is defined by interruptions of the previously mentioned, which comprise our desires as physical misplaced objects.
a city without objects
I cannot think of any form of fantastic art without imagining aimless, unconnected ideas scattered here and there in no order, aberrations of the mind, in short, dreams.
method statement
In order to investigate links between the individual and the forms of the city, the work brings together: analogical urbanism - the field of analogous objects; commodity capitalism - fixation on objects as commodities; environmental destructionaccelerated by commodity capitalism; dreams and the unconscious - the field of
thesis project, year 5 Dundee
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the three strips of Dundee, 2220
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4 academic... a city without objects new city conditions
a city without objects
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the order of figures, roads and parking analogical Dundee
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interruptionportfolioofcity
order architectural layers
architectural layers, detail objects against the figure-ground logic
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edge conditions, a dialogue between inner city and suburb
detail I, suburban elements within the city
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detail II; a sunday drive to tesco
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detail III; suburban scenery
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detail IV; lifestyle market
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detail V; ruins as city gates
This proposal creates a condition of tabula rasa that changes the car-centred planning of a particular area into a pedestrian environment. Even though architecture is experiencing a shift towards the periphery of necessity, there is an opportunity to bring it back into public discourse with the need to rethink our physical reality and our attitude towards it. The project critiques Dundee’s infrastructure, which takes an enormous portion of the space and, therefore, cannot be overlooked as a purely pragmatic and necessary byproduct of the city. It is an attitude that promotes rigidity and creates boundaries.
integrated design project, year 4 Hawkhill-Blackness Area, Dundee
Losing it altogether in the archive... ...and re-finding it in the city as a critical project
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a knowledge surface
The project proposes a network of such archives - places for society to confront issues, uncover truths and spread knowledge. It is where debates can be organised; where information - physical and digital - can be curated, stored and distributed. These infrastructural centres would make a connection between the physical and the digital. It is an attempt to show a view of the digital locale in our physical environment while using the online as a tool in a public institution to aid the freedom of speech and distribution of knowledge.
The archive brief is rooted in the belief that in order to understand and make decisions as a society, knowledge regarding our position in the world, our impact on the environment, our freedom as well as the very framework of choices where freedom is manifested, is crucial. It is a reaction to the current times of uncertainty, mistrust in public bodies and divisions in society.
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A public digital archive that is part of the cityAn information surface for the uncovering of knowledge new surface Tay Hill
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the centre of information
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ground floor ground floor with the inner surface raised up first floor
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inside the undergroundsurfacefloor
main structure - Glued laminated timber beams at different depths each level
Cameras sit on top of each elevator shaft; each is connected to one of four screens that sit in the middle of the internal piazza. The camera is surrounded by a polished aluminium sheet for water protection.
the inner surface
surface - Continuing the ceramic setts surface. Large screens are fit into this inner part of the surface. Timber boarding sits below the screed, providing a surface for it.
rainwater collection Inspection chamber (450 mm)
secondary structure Laminated glass beams with layers in a planar reciprocal arrangement; jointed together with mirror-finish stainless steel joints. (H 0.6 m; W 0.15 m)
the outlook apparatus purpose - see the city
Gutters running along the edge of the roof. A roof drainage system guides water down at the middle of each facade. A metal plate, which stops the water from falling away from the roof at the event of a heavier rain sits at the edge of the gutter; this would prevent unwanted splashes of water on the ground.
the core purpose - elevator shaft; container for floor-lifting mechanism; vertical service riser
interior to the structured field, section A-A`
the roof purposecentre transparency
debaing discussionchamber/publichall
A ground-source heat pump circulates cold water through the ground in order to raise its temperature. The warmer water at the end of the line exchanges heat with a separate water line inside the building. The two do not mix. The second water line circulates around the building.
secondary structure - Laminated glass beams with layers in a planar reciprocal arrangement; jointed together with mirror-finish stainless steel joints. (H 0.6 m; W 0.15 m)
outer & inner faces A translucent white polycarbonate panel structure with a large air gap for additional insulation. Its microcell composition creates a soft, naturally diffused light. This roof structure ensures that there are similar conditions of soft light all around the building. (roof slope at 1:50)
main structure - A glued laminated timber structure hold spanning between the four cores.
Once the floor is being lifted, some of its side partitions are folded in. The screens in the ground become screens on a wall. The floor is only lifted when needed for larger debates. The whole building becomes a debating chamber.
main structure 3.5 metre-long concrete panels that fit together. They are not permanently bonded; services running between them can be accessed if needed. They have outlets at certain points for electricity and wireless internet.
are in an upright position when the floor is lifted, and its sides - folded down.
Sheep’s wool insulation U-value 0.15 W/m K at 250 mm thickness internal cladding - Pre-
structure - In-situ concrete base 600 mm Protection board extruded polystyrene
ceramic setts - 210 x 100 x 80 This type of surface, while unpopular, has some advantages, such as light reflection and a warmer colour.
cast concrete panels (H 1 m; W 1.2 m; T 50 mm)
Hydraulic piston machine room oil hydraulicreservoir; pump; frequency controller; oil heater/cooler
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A tube motor that would raise or lower the polycarbonatelightdoors on any floor
outer layer Laminated layered glass panels provide transparency, while implementing UV protection.
main structure A glued laminated timber structure hold spanning between the four cores.
the wall purpose - retaining; insulating structure In-situ concrete retaining wall 600 mm insulation - Rigid PIR foam insulation boards at top of the wall U-value 0.15 W/ m K at 150 mm thickness
surface Continuing the ceramic setts surface. Large screens are fit into this inner part of the surface. Timber boarding sits below the screed, providing a surface for it.
The seating is configured along rails. The space can have many configurations with appropriate
the roof periphery purpose translucency diffusion; warmth
the staircase purpose - light weight; Foldedunobstructivestainless steel stairs, supported by a single rectangular stainless steel tube running through their center. Each staircase is protected under the first floor by concrete walls.
the surface interior purpose - continuity from outside to inside; ceramic setts 210 x 50 x 80
main structure Glued laminated timber beams (H 1.2 m; W 0.2 m)
debating chamber
Mirror-finish stainless steel to hide the holes.
elevator Guide rails for elevator
A rainwater collection water tank at 1.2 m underground -64,000 litres section A-A` 1:50
Compaction may be needed to achieve a uniformly dense soil base with additional soil stability, loadbearing capacity, and resistance to water penetration
elevator door mechanism
main structure - Glued laminated timber beams that span from the concrete core to glued laminated columns in the middle of each side of the facade. (H 1.2 m; W 0.2 m)
Once the floor is being lifted, some of its side partitions are folded in. The screens in the ground become screens on a wall. The floor is only lifted when needed for larger debates. The whole building becomes a debating chamber.
The central and peripheral parts of its ceiling are covered with ribbed timber elements, which provide sound dampening.
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Hydraulic pistons that raise the central floor are located at each side of the elevator (see plan for location). Electrical conduits and optical fibre for the level 1 platform (to the left of elevator) and the rising central floor.
hydraulic pistons - A system of hydraulic pistons (one in each wall to the side of each elevator see in plan for a more accurate location) with perpendicular splines cut into the outer part of the piston, that raise the central floor up, and transfer some of their energy to parapets that lift up automatically through a worm gear system. As the hydraulic lift goes up, it turns a worm wheel on a fixed shaft, which turns a perpendicular worm gear, to which is engaged another worm gear - raising the parapets.
the surface exterior purpose plug-in; easy access
geothermal heat exchange
Hydraulic piston cylinder inside a concrete well with a depth of the height of the rise + 1 m
floor lift mechanism the drawing of the mechanism is purely suggestive
the floor purpose stability surface - polished concrete insulation Rigid PIR foam insulation boards at top of the woll U-value - 0.15 W/m K at 200 mm
Lean concrete layer for a leveled surface Base course of gravel
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openings - Pivoting doors are framed with insulated steel tube sections
outer & inner faces - A translucent white polycarbonate panel structure with a large air gap for additional insulation.
spatial continuity - pivoting doors a threshold along the surface 1m0m
the facade purpose - spatial continuity; translucency ; light diffusion; warmth
main structure - Glued laminated timber beams, each of which spans between a corner and a centre column. (H 1.2 m; W 0.2 m)
secondary structure - A sliding mechanism that allows the doors to slide to one side of the facade and open up large parts of ит .
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Translucency, pivoting doors
The structure of the internal piazza seen from below
Eastcourt garden studio, 2019 Charlcombe Lane, Bath
The clients asked for a flexible small space in their garden that could be used as either an office or a guest bedroom. My responsibilities started with the technical design stage of the project.
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park cottage landscape design, 2020 Lower South Wraxall
During the construction of the house, the clients asked Designscape Architects to also propose a landscape design. My responsibilities included drafting plans and technical drawings, communicating with clients and sub-contractors.
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32 professional... park cottage
The development of the masterplan has involved extensive consultation with various user groups within the School – including pupils.
Working through a series of options in a collaborative process with Historic England and the Local Planning Authority, we were in the process of developing a masterplan which included the provision of new sports facilities, - including a full size, floodlit Astro hockey pitch – new teaching spaces and dining facilities. The whole plan included a rethink and expansion of the parking on the site, and a comprehensive pedestrian circulation and wayfinding strategy, which presented the possibility of significant “heritage gains”. During my time in the practice, we also started devising a strategy to consign the old oil fired boiler systems to history, and move towards a renewable energy strategy for all the buildings.
westonbirt school masterplanning, 2020 Gloucestershire
Designscape Architects were invited to participate in a competition for a new masterplan for the Westonbirt School. The practice was then commissioned alongside Greenhalgh Landscape Architects to develop a 10 year vision document and masterplan for the future of Westonbirt Schools.
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34 professional... westonbirt school
serial vision
north road housing development, 2020 Bath
The new houses will replace a large bungalow, which is both unremarkable in quality and somewhat out of character with its surroundings. In contrast, the proposed development maximises the potential of the site, whilst still keeping the impact on neighbours to a minimum.
My role in the project ended with the sumbission of planning application.
The development will include three houses, which are designed to have four bedrooms over three floors, including the attic. Living accommodation is located on the ground floor, with the sitting room facing south, towards the road. The open plan kitchen connects to the garden via large sliding doors, with the garden intended to function as an external room.
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36 academic... north road Longsection2 1:50Groundfloorplan
Kamen Rusev
Part II Architectural Assistant Graduate of the University of Dundee issuu.com/kamenrusevinstagram.com/rusev.archkamenrusev@outlook.com
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academic... old town market
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