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marek podlaha
We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us. W. Churchill
born
1991 / Czech Republic
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experience
education
7/2016 - 11 /2016 // wulf architekten / Germany
2015 - 2017 // Aalborg University / Denmark
+ full-time internship / competition department + 1 individual project / 4 team projects + concept development / plan development / facade design / presentation graphics 2/2015 // jasiok architekti / Czech Republic + student cooperation / architectural study + showcase building for EUFI holding a.s. + translation of conceptual ideas / facade design / 3D modelling / presentation 8/2014 // PROAR / Czech Republic + full-time internship / project planning + family house in Prague + plans / elevations / construction drawings
+ MSc / architecture and design + gpa - 11,3/12 // class representative 2011 - 2015 // CTU in Prague / Czech Republic + Bc / architecture and building engineering + receiving scholarship for excellent study results spring 2014 // Ajou University / Republic of Korea + student exchange / architecture + gpa - 4,25/4,5
achievements
software skills
2017 // Exhibited at Aalborg Architecture Festival + aurae installation / student competition
photoshop sketchup autocad artlantis rhinoceros vray indesign grasshopper illustrator allplan 2d
2016 // Honorable Mention + bischofschloss schule / wulf architekten 2016 // Honorable Mention + rathaus markdorf / wulf architekten 2015 // 2nd place + flow pavilion / student competition
workshops 2016 // Wofie - Smart Cities / Denmark + multidisciplinary workshop for innovation + user behavior in low-energy housing 2015 // Concrete Goods / Czech Republic + workshop coordinator and instructor + concrete jewelry manufacturing
practical skills visualisation competition sustainability concept graphics teamwork presentation model making 3d printing
contents new home
hatlehol church
large
integration habitat
aurae installation
sun bar
small
flow pavilion
new home a martian habitat master’s thesis / team of 2
We are living in an era where interplanetary travel, most significantly to Mars, is widely discussed in both science and popular culture. However, considerably less attention is placed on the quality of living spaces provided for the mission crew even though it will have significant impacts on both the design of the journey and the overall success of the mission. That is why our project of a Martian habitat firstly seeks to identify the crucial technical and humancentered architectural challenges of a longduration stay in seclusion and confinement in the hostile Martian environment. The final proposal consists of a fully prefabricated central structure that will be transported onto Mars in the form of a lander spacecraft, containing additional folding-plate balconies and an elastic ETFE envelope, that will both deploy upon landing and thus expand the inhabitable spaces of the habitat and form a spatial and visually open Martian base. In addition, our proposal seeks to provide the crew with the sensations of safety and belonging, and grant the crew the possibility to extend and enhance their living environment as the spatial demands of the crew evolve over time, through the incorporation of bamboo crop within the design of the habitat.
i. core landing
ii. foundation sintering
iii. membrane securing
the prefabricated core structure arrives in the form of a spaceship and lands on Mars
robots start sintering the Martian ground to fill the landing crater and to form the foundations
ETFE membrane is deployed and secured to the sintered foundations by the robots
iv. membrane inflation
iv. membrane inflation
iv. membrane inflation
the two layers of the ETFE membrane, reinforced with ropes, are inflated
the two layers of the ETFE membrane, reinforced with ropes, are inflated
the two layers of the ETFE membrane, reinforced with ropes, are inflated
observatory dwelling dwelling leisure work
forest
garden
context
core
context
architecture architecture landscaping landscaping
NEW HOME NEW HOME
Earth Earth earth approach
Martian marsMartian approach approach approach
approach approach
architecture builds on local context and is divided into several fields
architecture brings its own context and unifies many fields
dining
kitchen
gym
library
1. 2.
garden
3.
A.
B.
C.
welded cladding waffle stiffeners bracing beams columns airogel coating door cavity T/U/I - supports interior cladding
welded cladding waffle stiffeners bracing beams columns airogel coating door cavity door (welded cladding + waffle stiffeners) T/U/I - supports interior cladding
welded cladding waffle stiffeners bracing beams columns airogel coating T/U/I - supports interior cladding
4.
A.
B. C.
cavity unit 1. Cavity unit
ETFE connection 2. ETFE connection
cavity unit 3. Cavity unit
beam joint 4. Beam joint
1. Protraction
1. Protraction
Hydraulic system alignes Hydraulic thesystem balconyalignes to sliding therails balcony to sliding rails
2. Unfolding
i. protraction 3. Deployed
3. Deployed
hydraulic system alligns the terrace with the sliding rails
Floor plates are aligned Floorand plates fixed areinaligned their position and fixed in their position
3. Deployed
2. Unfolding
Terrace plates slideTerrace on rails plates slide on rails
4. Locking
4. Locking
Floor plates are aligned and fixed in their position
ii. unfolding
iii. fixing
the terrace plates follow the rails on the core
the floor plates are alligned and fixed to their position
4. Locking
Frames are snapped Frames on to provide are snapped rigidity on to provide rigidity
The Martian architecture, as we see it, eliminates the separation of many of the Earth’s respected fields of urban planning, landscaping, interior design or product design and merges them all into one. By bringing a large part of our design’s context, the traditional division of space into the interior and exterior is no longer relevant, there is only different spatial qualities of privacy or interaction, utilitarianism or freedom, and construction or nature, all in a single piece of architecture. The Martian architecture becomes everything – the design and planning, the science and engineering, the botany and craftsmanship. Before evolution takes its leap, we believe this approach to be the standard of interplanetary travel and journeying for the decades to come.
Frames are sn
membrane inflation deflation Opened
open allows thermal radiation transmittance allowes thermal radiation transmittance
Closed
closed shields thermal radiation shields thermal radiation
hatlehol church studies in tectonic culture aalborg university / team of 5
The new church and community center should be a place for the people of Hatlehol to gather in all times, both in grief and happiness, alone or together. The church must fulfil the needs of the traditional sacred ceremonies, and be a shelter for the people. The architecture must be inspired by the light, material and nature, relating to the Nordic identity, creating a design with a focus on a strong interrelation between structure and atmosphere. This project is based on an architectural competition for a new church complex for the city of Hatlehol in Ă…lesund municipality, Norway. The overall theme within the design is Nordic architecture and tectonics. The main design focus is developing a complex where the distinction between the sacred and the mundane is clearly stated, while keeping the overall unity of a church. For the process of designing the church, the site location between the mountain and the sea and the proximity to the Hatlehol cemetery has played an important role in the design process. The final design investigates a tectonic approach to architecture and ensures an innovative structural and architectural relation between form, material, acoustics, structure and construction. Additionally, the investigation of the Nordic craft traditions can be sensed throughout the project.
The project of Hatlehol Church is reflecting on the current state of the site and its surroundings. Firstly, it creates a metaphorical Path of Life between the children’s chapel and the existing cemetery. The main volume of the church lies on this path that divides it into a sacred and a mundane part while keeping their unity to represent the current function and status of a protestant church. The main building also breaks the one-dimensional path between birth and death and creates a focal point of a religious life.
children chapel
sacred mundane
cemetary
volume
archetype
landscape
courtyard
landscape
bridges
light penetration
wall liberation
nature embeddment
bending moment
shear force
normal force
integration habitat zero-energy social housing aalborg university / team of 5
Integration Habitat seeks to develop a residential area in Aalborg, Denmark, which will accommodate residents from multiple cultures, namely Danes and refugees granted asylum. The concept of the project is to promote integration of the refugees by creating spaces where interaction and social well being is possible and encouraged. As a result, we have designed a residential project which will house approximately seventy-five percent of ethnic Danish residents and twenty-five percent of asylum holders. This ratio will offer both groups the possibility of inter-acculturation while preventing any socioeconomic seclusion of the area. Primarily, our main goal with the Assimilation Habitat is to create spaces that will allow for visual and physical interaction on many different levels and many different occasions, while still offering possibilities of privacy. All these small interactions between the groups will directly help break the barriers of integration. Lastly, we believe that all residents of the area should be offered the same quality of housing and there is, therefore, no separation between the housing units occupied by refugees and ethnic Danes.
ii. interaction
i. migration
iii. acculturation
i. site volume one cuboid covering reaching the construction limits of the site
ii. urban avenues divide the volume into 4 smaller volumes and provide main access
iii. suburban streets hold all building entrances and create intimate spaces for interaction
iv. rural gardens southern facade is shifted to make recreational pockets towards the stream
v. gradual rise sunlight into the suburban streets and daylight for the northern apartments
vi. rooftop slope roofs are sloped to improve efficiency of PVs and to create common rooftop terraces
visual connection
common spaces
encouraged interaction
exhibited
aurae installation concept competition aalborg architecture festival / team of 2
Aurae is an exhibition of three fluorescent tube installations situated in front of the Utzon Center in Aalborg. Just as the name gives, Aurae, or distinctive and pervasive qualities or character, the exhibition radiates a glimpse of physical scales in which architectural character is perceived. Place, Space and Detail are the three fundamental architectural scales, all presenting different potential to establish and affect a certain atmosphere. Place, or the context of architecture, offers an already existing character that a single piece of architecture builds upon and enhances. Space, or the pulp of architecture, is a newly offered character of a specific archetype that creates new meaningful experiences. And lastly, Detail, or the feature of architecture, such as the meeting of various materials or texture tactile qualities, can deepen these experiences and provide feelings of security, firmness or warmth. The meaning of each installation is hidden in its geometry based on the perspective of one’s perception. Only when one is directly positioned in front of the installation can one fully perceive the intended subject, reflecting on the field of architecture as a whole, which is often visually ungraspable and open to interpretation and is only fully understandable for its intentions only when confronted with the architect’s line of thought.
perspectives of architecture
space
detail
side
front
place
three scales of architecture
sun bar reusable off-grid bar DGI games / individual
Sun Bar is an off-grid sustainable solution for the DGI Games 2017 in Aalborg. The task, given by the municipality, was to design a beach bar that will serve refreshments to the participants during the event in many locations around Aalborg, mostly without the possibility of grid connection. Aesthetically, the bar should express its relation to the sun that will be the only resource of energy during operation. The main idea for the sustainability solution of a time-wise limited structure comes in two aspects. Firstly, by utilizing waste material for the construction, no additional waste is produced during the manufacture and no additional energy is embedded in the material. Secondly, by developing a fully reusable structure for many different occasions and conditions, the bar then presents a final solution for the otherwise waste material. Due to the designed dimensions, the bar is easily assembled and disassembled without the need for any heavy machinery and can be easily transported with a standardized cargo truck. The dimensions of the photovoltaic roof are calculated to fully support the necessary equipment and a back-up battery is dimensioned to provide 1,5 days of autonomy for the bar in case of overcast.
i. cube
ii. roof slope
dimensions will allow the bar to fit into a cargo truck
slope of the roof improves the efficiency of the pohotovoltaics
iii. roof area roof is expanded to provide more energy necessary for the operation
iv. horizon open horizon promotes interaction and cohesion between customers
coffee machine
rainwater harvesting
refridgerator
battery
kegerator
inverter
2nd place
flow pavilion reciporcal parametric pavilion haven i hune / team of 4
The Flow Pavilion is a reciprocal wooden structure standing in a cozy small garden cafĂŠ in Hune, Denmark. The proposal was designed within a team of four and later manufactured and transported with the help of the entire class of students, giving all participants an overall experience of a pavilion construction. The concept for the pavilion is based on activating the far corners of the cafĂŠ and their connection with the entrance. The main footing of the structure is centered around the oldest tree in the garden, opening up towards its crown and creating the main spectacle, visible when approaching the cafe. All the other base points are situated in the corners of the garden. The design was developed with the use of parametric design and an embedded reciprocal tool, that allows a translation of an angular grid into a reciprocal structure, where all elements support each other by slight overlapping. After the design phase, the structure was statically calculated and each element was designed to bear the affecting loads. Lastly, all elements, which are all different, were drilled, numbered and later assembled.
i. current state
ii. main axes flow
iii. redirecting flow
iv. resulting shape
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