THE ECO-DIFFUSION CENTER (EDC)”

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KARALINA SHASTAVETS

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.

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.

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING “BLACK BATMAN”

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.