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KIRIL KIRILOV Curriculum Vitae +44(0)7874 102 968 kzkirilov@gmail.com

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7 Garth street 2/R Merchant City G1 1UT Glasgow, United Kingdom

English Bulgarian Russian Italian Spanish German

Traveling Photography Graphic Design Fashion Advertising & Branding Painting Crafts

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Hiking Tennis Badminton Music Literature Cooking

PROFILE

EDUCATION

RESEARCH

I am passionate and enthusiastic about architecture and design. To me, collaboration and teamwork are the keys to achieving the perfect results and also the environment I feel most comfortable in. I like to experiment and test new ideas, gaining inspiration from art, film, photography, and text as much as architecture. I am extremely committed and always strive for delivering good quality of work. I specialized in Architecture and Urban Theory. The group thesis project was one of the four shortlisted for A&DS Urban Design Award for 2018.

University of Dundee | Scotland

Peripheral Visions: Rural Metropolis May 2018 Thesis

The 5th year group project is focused on new forms of dense city making. The lack of dense urban sprawl caused by suburbanisation and its promotion of disconnected individualistic anti-communities as well as the growth of virtual environments causing the rise of a scenographic rather than a participatory view of the public realm brings a two-pronged attack on cities into the discourse.

Electronic Environments January 2017 Design Research

A short film accompanied by text, speculating about digital interactions within an electronic environment. The research results as a critique on futurism by looking at the human rather disconnected from society and denies society as such. In other words, it concludes in utopian visions turning into a dystopian future.

Golden Section And Its Appliance in Modern Architecture.

January 2015 Dissertation

A study of the golden ratio in terms of its transition from Fibonacci’s observations to Le Corbusier’s modular man. The research is based on close reading of these, applied on examples of contemporary art and architecture.

Master in Architecture with Honours 2012-2018

32 Foreign Language High School | Bulgaria CA - Level equivalent - English, Russian, Maths 2006-2011

SKILLS Autocad Sketch up Rhino Cinema 4D PS, AI, ID Adobe After Effects Adobe Premier Pro Freehand drawing Laser cutting 3D Printing 3D Scanning CNC Cutting Model Making Film Editing Photography

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WORK EXPERIENCE Architectural Assistant LC Architect, Sofia

Feb 2016 - Aug 2016 During my year out I worked in a small practice in Sofia. I participated in a number of projects, including renovation of a house in the outskirts, renovation and interior design of a bar in the heart of Sofia, interior design of a family apartment, designing an office building facade. As the practice was very small at the time I was involved in many tasks, e.g. providing 3d visualisations, plan and section drawings, technical drawings, surveying, document handling and taking part in meetings with clients, engineers and technicians.

Event-Promoter Dundee University Student Association

Sep 2014 - May 2015 This position as a Promoter at DUSA has given me the opportunity to develop my communication and marketing abilities and most importantly my understanding of working in a team.

Architectural Assiatant

ELITE Building Company, Sofia Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

After my second year of University I was given the opportunity to work at Elite Building Company’s office, an award winning studio with many projects behind their back. My tasks included surveying, technical detailing and interior planning and logo design. It was a great opportunity to be in an office environment of such kind and also gave me a head start in my third year of University.

REFERENCE Dr Lorens Holm Reader in Architecture and Director of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research +44(0)1382 345265

l.holm@dundee.ac.uk

Four-Bedroom House Year Out During year out I was given the op-

portunity to design a four-bedroom house near Vitosha mountain in

Sofia, Bulgaria. The sloping site and the proximity to the forest and eco

path leading to the mountain create an amazing scenery and allow for openness of the house, providing

spectacular views. The open plan of the house and the double-height living room create a monolithic

and contemporary feel, which is softened by the warm materials

used within the interior space of

the house. The sloping roof above

the living room reflects on the climate conditions and the cantile-

vered bedrooms respond well to the orientation of the house, casting

a shadow in the living and dining

room during the hot summer days.

PUBLIC LIBRARY The project is a public library in the city center of Dundee. The location is on Nethergate street, A991 and Marketgate street, which is the exact boundary of the old town and the new waterfront development. The site includes the Science center and Dundee Contemporary Arts gallery in its immediate context, giving the opportunity of creating a ‘cultural hub’ with a library enclosing the district. There is a huge empty space used for car parks at the moment which could potentially become a landscape that brings the cultural buildings together and form an attractive area within the heart of the city. The new central station and V&A museum on the waterfront side and the very commercial and retail part of the town are connected through the site of the Library, which would lead to a high occupation of the area.

The aim of the project is to provide the city with a public space which gives a new shape of the Library institution, offering the visitors wide range of activities, both educative and entertaining.

LIBRARY OUTLINE DESIGN

SITE PLAN SCALE 1:500

Aerial View

The tripple height space ather the wider ac�vi�es together. The perimeter of the space is formed rom staircases, nooks, entrances and balconies crea�ng rich possibili�es for spacial connec�on and places to inhabit. In the lobby people can gather together or be dispersed, occupied with different ac�vi�es, yet remain within each other’s company. Movement throughout the library occurs through this space. As such the lobby becomes the social focus of the library. The space connects together most of the internal volumes, combining cellular spaces into a more interconnected open plan arrangement. The cellular spaces accommodate specific ac�vi�es, like reading, IT training, making things in the lab, drinking at the bar, etc. The central space is less programmed offering the possibility of ac�vi�es co-exis�ng and interrac�ng through proximity. It includes changes in level which suggests a range of more intermediate and in�mate places within and around its periphery. These form open-ended places without a par�cular, assigned func�on in mind.

Par� Diagram

auditorium

silent study

IT / SILENT STUDY ZONE

MAKE LAB CAFE/BAR

HM Revenue & Customs

Greenmarket Road

Greenmarket Car Park

Inhabited Lobby Precedent

INHABITED LOBBY CONNECTION TO LANDSCAPE

Library

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

READING

VISUAL CONNECTION

CONTEMPLATION/ WELL BEING WORKSHOPS, LECTURES

group study

ARCHIVE/ READING

reference library

ADMINISRRATION/SUPPORT

RECEPTION

Queens Hotel

Perth Rd

Housing & Restaurants

Bank of Scotland

Alliance Trust

children’s library

Cafe&bar

magazine area

admin

Inhabited Lobby Concept

Two Storey Colonnade

creates a spacial overlap between outside and inside

Full-height Glazing

brings the exterior space of the collonade into the interior space of the lobby

Open-ended Ground Floor Lobby used for exhibi�ons, lectures and social events

The Scool of Architecture and Interior Design for London Metropolitan University Year: 1996 Sketch of the Ground Floor Lobby

CONCEPT MODEL PHOTOS

connec�on between the urban forest and Nethergate

Reflec�on of the landscape on the structure

IT

a t gallery bookshop r i archive u m

c i r c u l a t i o n

s e r v i c e

plant

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Site Plan Scale 1:500

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1.Entrance 2.Reception/Lobby 3.Bookshop 4.Gallery 5.Atrium 6.Magazine area 7.Cafe&Bar 8.Archive 9.Plant room 10.Individual study 11.Administration 12.Meeting 13.Children’s library 14. Boarding games zone 15. IT 16. Reference library 17. Teaching room 18. Group study 19. Meditation 20.Auditorium 21.Forum 22.Silent study zone (Landing library) 23. Informal reading

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A Level 0

Sec�on AA scale 1:200

Sec�on BB scale 1:100

DESIGN RESEARCH UNIT Year 4 The unit focuses on research of an architectural topic expressed through an art form (thinking machine). My research is based on the 1960’s and 1970’s avant-garde visions of a ‘global society’ connected through technology.

Where as a critique on consumerism or as a manifesto of the future globalization, architects and artists like Ant Fram, HausRucker-Co, Superstudio and many more provoked those visions in a variety of design projects, art instaltions, performances and costumes or masks that challenge the perceptions of spaces and environments.

The thinking machine, Experimental environments is a short video which was screened as a loop of three images representing a narrative of an eventual interaction within an electronic environment. The hand-made metal mask in the video is the tool for ‘inhabiting’ and ‘interacting’ wthin the digital world.

The research results as a critique on futurism by looking at the human rather disconnected from society and denies society as such. In other words it concludes in utopian visions turning into a dystopian future. The topic of individual personal oasises against the collective fields of communal intelligence is discussed further in the 5th year thesis, which is focused on dense city making.

Here is a link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP3HiNjF6t4

The Northern Obus Scotland is imagined as a single city of more than 5 million inhabitants, a medium sized city half the population of London, positioned within a vast national park. The 7 cities are linked together by a double oval traced in the landscape, a linear city that encompasses an ultra high-speed train network within multiple levels of accommodation - a national scale building in an urban rural context.

Existing cities become districts as immense areas of wilderness become the protected parklands of a single city which employs a new type of physical connectivity, all of it traversed by the same laws and the same imagination.

Inverness -

The Northern District

Perth -

Stirling -

The Central District

Dundee -

The Design District

Aberdeen -

The Industrial District Inverness

The Historic District

Nairn Forres

The High-speed Rail Network

Glasgow -

The Cultural District

Elgin

Edinburgh -

The Capital District

Drumnadrochit (Loch Ness) Fort Augustus

Aberdeen

Fort William (Ben Nevis)

Dundee

Glencoe

Perth Gleneagles

Anstruther

Stirling Edinburgh Helensburgh

The 518 mile long, Continuous Linear City

Dumbarton

Cumbernauld

Glasgow

Livingston

Bellshill

Shotts

Glasgow

1:10 000 Plan