Architecture Portfolio | Karalina Shastavets

KARALINA SHASTAVETS

architecture portfolio.

EDUCATION

2019-2022 | SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN (SCAD)

Savannah, GA, B.F.A. in Architecture GPA: 4

2016-2019 | BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (BNTU)

Minsk, RB, B.F.A. in Architecture and Design GPA: 4

2008-2016 | MOZYR SCHOOL OF ART

Mozyr, Belarus, Art and Academic Drawing GPA: 4

INVOLVEMENT

2022-present | AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS (AIA)

2022-present | JUSTICE, EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION (JEDI) HKS, Atlanta, GA

2021-present | INTEGRATED PATH TO ARCHITECTURAL LICENSURE (IPAL)

2021-2022 | FREEDOM BY DESIGN ADVISORY COMMITTEE (FBDAC)

2020-present | AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS (AIAS)

EXPERIENCE

2022 - present | HKS INC

Atlanta, GA, Architectural Design Professional

2022 Summer | HKS INC

Atlanta, GA, Architectural Intern

2021 Summer | SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL (SOM)

Washington, DC, Architectural Intern

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2023 - present | HKS ENVIRONMENTAL , SOCIAL & GOVERNANCE IN DESIGN

2021-2022 | AIAS FREEDOM BY DESIGN DIRECTOR SCAD Chapter, Executive Board

2021 | CANSTRUCTURE COMPETITION

SCAD Chapter, Executive Board

2020 | SLS PANELIST, PRESENTER SCAD Language Studio Panel Discussion

2019 | MEGOC TEAM LEADER OF SOCIAL SERVICE

Minsk European Games Organizing Committee

2018-2019 | HEAD OF ARCHITECTURAL DORMITORY

BNTU Faculty Student Council of Architecture

CONFERENCES & PUBLICATIONS

2022 Summer | DEZEEN

Publication: “Fifteen design projects by graduates of Savannah College of Art and Design”

2019 | 75th STUDENT SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL CONFERENCE, BNTU

“Architecture and Innovative Qualities of Concrete”

2018 | 74th STUDENT SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL CONFERENCE, BNTU

“Biological Concrete-The Material of The Future”

Publication: Electronic Collection of Materials of BNTU, 2018.

2018 | CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, BNTU

2017 | INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-PRACTICAL CONFERENCE, BNTU

Publication: Modern Technologies in Education, p. 273-276, BNTU, 2017.

SKILLS & LANGUAGES

LANGUAGES:

Russian Belarusian German

SOFT SKILLS: Collaboration

Responsibility

Problem Solving

SOFTWARES:

Revit Adobe Suite

Autodesk Lumion Enscape

PROFESSIONAL: Rendering Concept Design Sketching Diagramming Feasibility Studies

Drone Photography

AWARDS

2023 Winter | HKS ANNUAL DESIGN FELLOWSHIP 2023

2022 Summer | ACSA/AISC 2022 STEEL DESIGN STUDENT COMPETITION

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture; Honorable Mention“Water Museum”

2022 Spring | ARCHITECTURE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AWARD

Savannah College of Art and Design, Senior Project “Water Museum”

2021 Winter | INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS (IDA)

IDA; Bronze in Mix - Use Architectural designs, “The Eco-Diffusion Center”

2020-2022 | DEAN’S LIST

Savannah College of Art and Design

2021-2022 | TAU SIGMA DELTA (TSD)

Academic Honor Society for Building Arts

2021-2022 | AFGA GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP

Architecture Foundation of Georgia

2021-2022 | MOORE OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP

Benjamin Moore

2020 | SLS STUDENT EXCELLENCE AWARD

Savannah College of Art and Design Language Studio

2020-2022 | EUROPEAN BOV SCHOLARSHIP

European Board of Visitors

projects summary.

WATER MUSEUM (W/M)

Awards: The 22nd Annual Steel Design Student Competition: Honorable Award

Senior Project Architecture Sustainable Design Award

Publication: Dezeen. “Fifteen design projects by graduates of Savannah College of Art and Design”

Course: ARCH 405/406 - Capstone- Winter-Spring 2022

Professor: Daniel Brown

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion, InDesign, Photoshop

Both the mountains and the valleys of the French Broad River basin contain valuable ecological and cultural features including an exceptional biological diversity of plants and animals, pristine headwater streams, fertile soils, scenic beauty and intact agricultural communities. The French Broad River is one of the oldest rivers in the world with only the Nile and New river predating the French Broad. It is one of only a few rivers in the United States that flows North. A water stream is proposed that flows into the site. This not only makes it possible to study water and implement system purification but also enhancing flora and fauna, raising the value of the site from design and entertainment point of view, and keeping the river in its natural state.

The typology of the building consists of three important spaces: the first part of the building is a public exhibition, the second is semi-private, and the third space in the middle serves as the artery of life of the museum; a place of gathering, enjoying nature and celebrating water. The Water Museum introduces innovative methods of water purification, collecting water samples from rivers and lakes around the world, preserving water heritage, providing educational and entertainment programs to establish a new culture of water and fostering a new relationship between humanity and water, reconnecting people with the tangible and intangible aspects of this element, including its social, cultural, ecological, artistic, and spiritual dimensions.

LEGEND

VEGETATION

NAVIGATION

PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULES

The sun-adaptive envelope mitigates solar isolation, thereby offering reductions in heating/cooling loads, and improving the distribution of daylight. Integrating PV modules into a dynamic shading system generate electricity and balance energetic performance with architectural expression.

GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM

Geothermal energy is green energy that has a consistent source: the solar energy stored in the earth itself. It works by taking energy to & from the ground and delivering it to the building. The ceiling heating systems use a series of pipes that circulate hot water to heat the space.

WATER FILTERING

Aquaporin Inside® technology is introduced in this project as a filtration system. It incorporates aquaporin proteins to replicate nature’s own water filtration process to filter water faster and more energy-efficiently. One square meter of the synthetic man-made membrane can filter around 50 liters of water per hour. One gram of aquaporins can filter 700 liters per second.

RAINWATER HARVESTING captures, diverts, and stores rainwater from curve rooftop of the museum for later use. Rainwater harvesting is strategy in the greater scheme of reducing domestic water use.

RAISED FLOOR is a construction model in which an elevated floor is built above a building’s original concrete slab surface. The empty space between the panels and the subfloor acts as a plenum chamber to dispense conditioned air evenly throughout the building.

photovolaic panel

HABITAT 2022: SELF-HEALING LIVING

The 2022 Habitat Design Competition: Climate Positive Concrete Housing ARCH 404 - Urban Context - Fall 2021 Professor Emad Afifi

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion, InDesign, Photoshop, Camera Drone Self-Healing Concrete Living

The Habitat Self-Healing Living adopts the use of self-healing concrete within duplex house prototypes in an urban in-fill project site. Analogous to recovering urban fabric, bio-concrete has the capacity to repair its own cracks from aging and imperfections. The Habitat Self-Healing Concrete Duplex Houses are made entirely of bio-concrete using a modular construction methods. The site plan martially embodies the physical materiality of cast-in-place concrete by presenting

The expected longevity of self-healing concrete homes will balance embodied energy levels over the project life-cycle. Sustainable energy and carbon reduction is achievable through operational efficiency, maintenance and automatic operation with smart user intervention. The self-healing concrete method observes criteria such as long shelf life, pervasive, quality, reliability, versatility, and repeatability. These new affordable housing models also provide greater respect for

MASSING DIAGRAM

The outdoor cinema provides a gathering place as well as another green circle of plants.

The concrete office building emphasizes the features of the use of concrete as the building has a round shape.

The reverse side of the cinema wall has an interactive play installation.

A type of multifamily property containing TWO LIVING UNITS located within the same structure and on the same lot. The TWO UNITS are attached horizontally such that the units are side by side and share a common wall.

A type of multifamily property containing FOUR LIVING UNITS located within the same structure and on the same lot. The FOUR UNITS are attached vertically and horizontally such that the units are on separate floors and share a common ceiling and a common wall.

A type of multifamily property containing THREE LIVING UNITS located within the same structure and on the same lot. The left part of the duplex - the ONE UNIT consists of two floors and shares a common wall. The right part of the duplex consists of TWO UNITS that share a common wall and a common ceiling.

DUPLEX TYPE A

DUPLEX TYPE B

DUPLEX TYPE A+ B

BIO-CONCRETE

Unlike regular concrete, self-healing concrete contains bacteria called bacillus pasteurii. As the bacteria eat, grow and reproduce, they excrete calcite, which is a form of calcium carbonate. When the calcite bonds to the concrete, it fills the crack and seals it up.

Solar power systems derive clean, pure energy from the sun. Solar panels helps combat greenhouse gas emissions, reduces collective dependence on fossil fuels, and reduces or eliminates energy bills.

Rainwater harvesting captures, diverts, and stores rainwater from rooftop of the home for later use. Rainwater harvesting is strategy in the greater scheme of reducing domestic water use.

The green roof provides shade, removes heat from the air, and reduces temperatures of the roof surface. The courtyard provides natural ventilation and daylight. The introduction of green design in this project increases interaction with nature. The entrance to the house is glazed and can serve as a greenhouse.

The floor heating systems use a series of pipes underneath the floors that circulate hot water to heat the filing directly making the room warmer.

“GREENHOUSE” ENTRANCE

SOLAR ENERGY

RAINWATER HARVESTING

INTERNAL COURTYARD

RADIAN FLOOR

The

dynamism, rhythm, and pattern

Repetitive modular wooden structural elements with height-varying arches

moves stretches folds

movable part of the Oscura structure stretches in length, moves on wheels, and folds when not in use

The lens that lets the past reflect into our present...

Physical Model

THE ECO-DIFFUSION CENTER (EDC)”

International Design Awards 2021; Bronze in Mix - Use Architectural designs, ARCH 302 - Site and Environmental Context - Winter 2021

Professor Andrea Bertassi

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion, InDesign, Photoshop, Camera Drone Environmental Awareness Center

The Eco-Diffusion Center (EDC) seeks to diffuse a deeper ecological appreciation and activism into people of all socioeconomic levels in our nation and the world through research, development, and demonstration of innovative, unique, cost-effective, eye-opening, understandable, widely-appealing, and reasonable strategies, tools, education, and lifestyles. EDC visitors and corporate customers receive thought-provoking exposure to ecology, including engaging eco-experiments, inventions, and teaching.

These reveal not only the value of pursuing an eco-aware way of life in their home, school, work, business, and recreation but also practical, self-beneficial methods for these pursuits. All EDC patrons will have greater eco-acuity in their daily life, be better able and motivated to eco-educate others, and therefore be more valuable participants and leaders in the eco-mission.

1. Lobby

2. Foyer

3. Elevator

4. Utility room

5. Restroom

6. Yoga area

7. Exercise area

8. Locker room

9. Courtyard

10. Cafe area

11. Kitchen

12. Balcony

13. Outdoor seats area

14. Transaction portal

15. Art workshop

16. Sculpture drawing stage

17. Gallery of art works

DUPLEX HOUSES “CINNABAR MOTH”

ARCH 301 - Human-centered Design - Fall 2020

Professor Elaine Gallagher Adams

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion, InDesign, Photoshop, Climate Consultant Affordable Housing

The project “Cinnabar Moth” is based on solving problems through architectural design and focused on how the main human factors influence and determine the architectural design. The project is located at 1095 May River Rd. It includes the maximum number of units on which affordable energy-efficient housing as the duplex houses (1130 f2) are designed. They not only have the right proportions and the necessary space but also provide a combination of traditional and modern design that meets all the conditions for comfortable living for a working family and respects the traditions of the city of Bluffton.

The shape of the plan was designed based on the simple geometry and cinnabar moth form to achieve an interesting shape and the correct proportion. The type of construction of the duplex house is a modular wooden design, which is a fast and inexpensive method of building. The home responds to climate and interacts with nature. The design strategies in terms of environmental control and climates such as natural ventilation, passive solar heating, night mass cooling, and others are included. The location of the windows and the zones of the house are projected in accordance with the sun path, the wind rose, and other information.

WEST SECTION (FALL 4 PM)

NORTH SECTION (SPRING 6 PM)

EAST SECTION (FALL 7 AM)

SECOND FLOOR 555 ft 2 scale 1/16” = 1’-0”

FIRST FLOOR 571 ft 2 scale 1/16” = 1’-0”

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING “BLACK BATMAN”

Professor Andrey Yurovsky Software: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, InDesign, Photoshop Residential Building

The goal of the project is to design a residential building of a variable number of stories which should include a variety of apartment layouts, proper use of space following GOST standards (governmental standard of Belarus), and the creation of a unique design. “Black Batman” is a residential building of a variable number of stories which is located in the “Clover” micro-district, Novaya Borovaya district, Belarus. Its design emphasizes both the importance of bats conservation and the interesting geometry of a bat. The layout of the building has a bat’s outspread wings element.

Triangular bay windows are a distinctive feature of the building. They serve to increase the internal space, provide natural illumination and ventilation, bring interesting shape to the layout of the apartments, and add a distinctive look to the exterior. The design of the building respects the features of the local post-Soviet architecture as well as provides apartments with diverse layouts and configurations for different family types and income.

craftsmanship summary.

HYBRID CREATURE

DSGN 102-16 - Preliminary Design - Part 2

Professor Flynn