Marijana Simic_Architecture Portfolio by Marijana Simic

M. Arch MARIJANA SIMIC date of birth:10. August 1985. place: Belgrade, Serbia

CONTACT : Ke Hua Bei Lu No. 60, B805, SOHO building, chengdu CHINA tel. (China) +8618280436072 tel. (Serbia) +381642425456 email: makichic@gmail.com

resume + PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ++ 2011. +++two months internship, Robinson architects , Chengdu +++participated in the student competition “My city my future” under the architecture

design studies in Southwest Jiaotong University +++ involved in research process and design for primary school and social housing

projects in Yangzhou in professor Wang Wei’s (王蔚) studio, Chengdu ++ 2010. +++participated in the architectural and urban design competition for Senjak district market in Belgrade

+ EDUCATION

++ June 2011. finished one year general scholar course in Architectural design and theory on Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China ++ July 2009. Graduated with average mark 9,64 (out of max. 10) and gained the academic title Graduate Engineer of Architecture – M.Arch. (specialization Architecture) ++ 2007 – 2009. Master of Architecture studies, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade ++ 2004 – 2007. Bachelor of Architecture studies, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade (graduated with average mark 9,28 of max. 10) ++ 2000 – 2004. XIII Belgrade high school (graduated with the highest average mark 5,00 and was awarded “the best student of generation 2000/2004. ” )

+ WORKING EXPERIENCE ++ Nov.2011 - Aug.2012. Architect at CNA Smith Group(思纳史密斯集团)Chengdu, China ++ 2010. junior architect in “ProStory” architecture office in Belgrade, Serbia ++ 2007 – 2009. junior assistant on Architectural Design Studios, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade ++ 2008. 2 months internship in architecture office “Rangel Moreira” in Recife, Brazil

+++ participated in competition for Serbia pavilion in Venice biennale 2010.

++ 2008. +++participated in student competition for Knauf exposition place +++participated in international student workshop “City as an educational polygon,

Smart City”, Florence

+ OTHER ACTIVITIES ++ 2008. Participated in the volunteer camp “Memorial site Sachsenhausen” in Oranienburg, Germany ++ 2004 - 2005. Participated in the project “World heritage in the hands of youth”, organized by the United Nations Association of Serbia, which promoted preservation of objects and places under UNESCO protection

+ SCHOLARSHIPS ++ 2010 – 2011.

Chinese Government Scholarship

++ 2004 – 2009.

Student scholarship, Ministry of Education, Republic of Serbia

+ LANGUAGES ++ English (advanced) ++ French (intermediate) ++ Chinese (basic)

+ COMPUTER SKILLS ++ AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, SketchUP, Photoshop, In design

+ OTHER INTERESTS ++ interior design, architecture theory, philosophy, graphic design, photography, art history, literature, cinematography

CNA Smith Group, 2012. GUANGYUAN HOTEL&OFFICE

CHINA WORKS CNA Smith Group (Chengdu) is an architectural design and engineering company that focuses mainly on commercial developments, high density housing and mixed-use high rise buildings. My work in CNA ranged from conceptual master plans to detailed design of mixed-use towers and retail objects.

location: Guang Yuan function: hotel and office size: 53000sqm status: concept design

CNA Smith Group, 2012. GUANGYUAN HOTEL&OFFICE

CNA Smith Group, 2012. Chengdu luxury housing location: Chengdu function: housing size: 140000sqm status: idea

the inspiration for the concept of balconies are the rice terraces that depict so well how human intervention can perfectly fit in the natural landscape. They also aim to catch as much sun and beautiful views for each home and are formed following these goals. The concept of garden for each home is imagined as a part of chengdu’s policy for the future, namely the “Modern garden city of the future”.

CNA Smith Group, 2012. Chengdu luxury housing

CNA Smith Group, 2012. Shopping center in “European” style location: Zi Yang function: commercial size: 370000 sqm status: ongoing

After client requested the project of commercial centre to be done with elements of “classical European architecture”, we were faced with professional challenge; the design process became the simulation of the idea of European city and was in some parts slipping into postmodernism and in others in Italy-inspired theme park. The final options were an attempt to make the scale and circulation between buildings reminiscent of narrow streets interrupted with squares, and for architectural expression to be stage design-like classicist European style.

CNA Smith Group, 2012. Shopping center in “European” style

CNA Smith Group, 2012. XiChong commercial center - concept location: Xi Chong function: commercial size: 57000 sqm status: idea

CNA Smith Group, 2012. XiChong commercial center - concept

design research in prof. Wang Wei’s (王蔚) studio, Chengdu, 2011. SCHOOL TOWN location: Yangzhou function: primary school status: ongoing

Research project for Primary school in Yangzhou, was conducted with an aim to offer a different approach to educational architecture and to experiment with the ways school spaces could be improved and made more inspirational, creative and intuitive. With these goals in mind and after a thorough research of different age group’s needs, we came up with different solutions for entrances, yards, corners, hallways, classrooms, mini squares and color schemes that all combined in the final concept of school town.

design research in prof. Wang Wei’s (王蔚) studio, Chengdu, 2011. SCHOOL TOWN

design research in prof. Wang Wei’s (王蔚) studio, Chengdu, 2011. SOCIAL HOUSING IN YANGZHOU location: Yangzhou function: housing status: research/completed

Social housing in China is the subject of growing public concern. The Yangzhou case study concentrated on one particular category of potential social housing residents - the people from urban villages who will be moved from their houses due to city growth. After learning about the habits, needs, social ties and structure, leisure activities and community understanding of the people of one urban village whose residents were soon to be moved, we were able to create a desirable model of social housing that emphasised on providing the possibility for specific activities to occur on the level of urban neighborhood, or as we named it, home extensions.

design research in prof. Wang Wei’s (王蔚) studio, Chengdu, 2011. SOCIAL HOUSING IN YANGZHOU

STUDENt WORKS Selection of projects from Bachelor and Master studies on Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade (2004 - 2009) and one year program on Faculty of Architecture, Sothwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu (2010/2011).

second year of master studies, 2009. TRANSCULTURAL MARKET AND RESTAURANT Perhaps I am suffocating within the fully autonomous customs of my complex and developed culture? Merab Mamardashvili

Transcultural market and restaurant project is an exercise on the notion of transculture and implications that this sociological determinant can have in physical environment. Research relies on writings of philosopher Merab Mamardashvili who defines transculture as transcending the limits of one’s native surroundings and culture and stepping into “no culture” because the limits of any culture are too narrow for the full range of human potentials and human being can exceed all “genetic” definitions. In the project, the transcultural potential of users is triggered by food choices that they make (stage one: GREEN MARKET), food processing that they cannot have control of (stage two: KITCHEN), and finally, consumption of food that they’ve chosen and others have prepared (stage three: RESTAURANT). This process, reflected on the form of the object, symbolically describes how our origins and customs can be deconstructed and how such experiences can and should affect our future choices.

location: Belgrade function: market status: idea

second year of master studies, 2009. TRANSCULTURAL MARKET AND RESTAURANT

2YARDS is a conceptual research about architectural interventions on spaces layered with many meanings. The space in question is Staro sajmište /Old fairground/, an urban neighbourhood in Belgrade that went through many different uses over time: it served as fairground for international Belgrade fair in 1938; it was turned into concentration camp by Gestapo in 1941 and bombed by the Allies in 1944; after the Second world war, under communist regime it became a headquarter of public work volunteering; in the 70s fair buildings were awarded to artists as their ateliers and in 1987. It was proclaimed a cultural site, remaining however, in very bad shape to these days. Following the different “appropriations” of this space in Lefebvrian sense and its heavily accented political uses, the timeline of the site is aligned with four philosophical categories regarding the use of space in order to direct the project research. The categories are: theme park, tabula rasa (socialist, post-historical space), abstract (political) space and experimental city and these are being combined to describe the particular uses of Staro sajmište over time. Each of these categories are then allotted with their physical describers from the site and these then form the physical language of approaching the space as memorial ground. By keeping in mind the highly saturated layering of the location, the project aims to face the past using the physical tools from it, but in a vivid, dynamic way, avoiding the traps of politicizing the memory like it is often the case in contemporary memorial centers.

second year of master studies, 2008. PANOPTICAL MEMORIAL YARD location: Belgrade function: memorial center status: idea

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second year of master studies, 2008. PANOPTICAL MEMORIAL YARD

One of the yards is imagined as inverted panopticon, an exercise in collective introspection. This is implied with a structure that encircles the former central tower of the fair and later of the concentration camp and it holds spaces for exhibitions and lectures. The architectural language (unobvious entrances from outside, walls covered with windows inside) invites the visitor to discover the layers of the past and to feel the memory of previous uses by reading the physical reminders of it in the space.

second year of master studies, 2008. PANOPTICAL MEMORIAL YARD

second year of master studies, 2008. PANOPTICAL MEMORIAL YARD Watchtowers that are distributed throughout the site serve as an exhibition space, reminiscent of progressive futuristic mood of the 1938. exhibitions, but they also offer a surveillance game to the visitor: each of the towers contains the monitors that show what other people in other watchtowers are doing, but the monitor of the tower in question is left blank. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how everyone can watch the others and know that they are being watched, but can never succeed seeing themselves.

second year of master studies, 2008.

PANOPTICAL MEMORIAL YARD The second yard is imagined as an ever-changing garden that carries a seed of transcultural space for alternative currents and is a ground for temporary structures such as circuses and summer theaters.

second year of master studies, 2008. PANOPTICAL MEMORIAL YARD

first year of master studies, 2008. BALLET SCHOOL location: Belgrade function: ballet school status: idea

The idea behind the project is to provide ballet dancers with places which would be reactive to the efforts, specifics and sacrifice that lie behind the performance. The school is the mechanical key whose noisy turning makes the ballerina in the music box spin so gracefully. One side of the body of the school is attacked by irregularities and comforting imperfection. That side shows the many ways dancers can enter school in the morning, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place where they can play, climb, hide, gossip, smuggle ice-cream. These spaces represent highly developed backstage in which life is allowed to occur. The other side of the project are elements of stage, dance rooms and performance halls - spacious, luminous, clear and demanding.

first year of master studies, 2008. BALLET SCHOOL

The basic structure, built above the former railway station, represents three-dimensional grid that can be inhabited as much as physical and cultural determinants can allow. It is an experiment with architectural elements â&#x20AC;&#x201C; those that carry (vertical and horizontal communications) and the carried ones (boxes for housing). The physical distribution of these elements is done according to context; it becomes dense or sparse, depending on the view or passage that it has to give to the public space, especially when vicinity of river Sava is taken into account. This system can take further additions and transformations that the conditions of the site allow, but it also serves as an indicator of possible overgrowth that is a common negative syndrome in Belgradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housing in the past twenty years. In this sense, the structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final occupancy is an image of socio-economical state of the city.

first year of master studies, 2007. HIGH DENSITY HOUSING location: Belgrade function: housing status: idea

first year of master studies, 2007. HIGH DENSITY HOUSING

third year of bachelor studies, 2007. MIXED USE CITY BLOCK location: Belgrade function: cultural center, offices and housing status: idea

third year of bachelor studies, 2007. MIXED USE CITY BLOCK

second year of bachelor studies, 2005. SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE location: Belgrade function: single family house status: idea

Chengdu, October 2012.