MAPing by Monika Augaityte

since 2009 /

Monika AugaitytÄ&#x2014; Projects

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C/V education 2012-2014 TUDelft {Delft University of Technology} / Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment master degree of Architecture 2006-2010 VGTU {Vilnius Gediminas Technical University} / faculty of Architecture bachelor degree of Architecture Vilnius, Lithuania 2008-2009 ISCTE {Instituto Universitário de Lisboa} / department of Architecture Erasmus programme Lisbon, Portugal 1988-2002 Šiauliai art school / dipoma in arts Šiauliai, Lithuania

work/shops 2012-2013 TU Delft Sustainable Campus Competition “Green Village”/ winner masterplan proposal/ in team with B. Tamasan 2012 10 Venice Biennale Workshop / “Onto-Cartography”/ 3 days workshop 2010-2011 individual practice / Recreational complex in Drąseikiai village {private project} / architect individual practice / Recreational complex in Vilkapjūviai village {private project} / architect individual practice / Recreational complex in Mažeikiai {public project} {http://www.mazmu.lt/} / architect individual practice / Individual house in Vilnius {private project} / architect Andre Baldi Architecture and Urbanism/ Interior of private flat in Steponas str. / freelance interior designer 2009 11/12 K. Lupeikis architecture / The contect of the Exibition hall in Palanga / freelance model maker 2009 06/09 CC Studio {NL} / Self suficient housing/ Interior of entrance hall/ Transformable outside kitchen/ assistant of arcitect 2008 06/08 A.S.A. {S. Kuncevičius architectural design firm} / Vilnius Congress Hall renovation contect / freelance model maker

skills Computer software: Autodest - AutoCAD Adobe - Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign 3D - Rhinoceros, SketchUP, 3D printing preparation text - Microsoft Office Language: Lithuanian - native English - excellent Russian - basic

personal info Date of birth : 15-12-1987 email : monika.augaityte@gmail.com mobile: +370 600 60389

A little word about

MAPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ing The following content is an assemblage of pieces from creative explorations during the last five years. Some of them were born under codes and limitations, some of them out of curiosity and others out of joy. Some of them I made with others and some of them I made alone.

“Body condition-on the edge“ /detention center/

>6-17<

at TU DELFT {The Netherlands} master 2nd year / individual graduation project location: GB. London, West Silvertown, Bradfield rd. theoretical research & architectural design 2013/14 winter

“Hyperbody 1to1” /prototype fabrication/

>18-23<

at TU DELFT {The Netherlands} master MSc2 / team work in collaboration with “Rock Office” location: NL. Rotterdam “Innovation Dock” object design & fabrication 2012 spring

“Kalunda“ /recreational complex/

>24-25<

client: Č. Kalunda {Lithuania} individual practice / architect location: LT. Drąseikiai vil. architectural design 2011 summer

“PAPLAUJA“ /quarter revitalisation/

>26-29<

at VGTU {Lithuania} bachelor BSc8 / individual graduation project location: LT. Vilnius, distr., between Subačius str.&Vilnele riv. urban & architectural design 2010

“Explore more“ /primary school/

>30-31<

at VGTU {Lithuania} bachelor BSc7 / individual project location: LT. Vilnius, Jeruale str. architectural design 2009 autumn

“SUNhouse“ /prefabricated passive housing/

>32-33<

at CC-Studio internship / team work with G. Linder and P. Heideman location: catalogue design {first phase} architectural design 2009 summer

“Body condition - on the edge” {detention center} location: UK, London date: 2013/14 main mentor: M. arch. ra. S. Lee second mentor: Prof. H. Plomp research mentor: Dr. ir. A. Radman

image ^ entering the building

Abstract Since the change of paradigm at the end of 18th century, pointed out by Michel Foucault in his book “Discipline and Punishment”, new forms of incarceration does not include the old purposes of body politics anymore. They set the state of mind based on inevitable surveillance. While prisoner as a body and society as a crowd have changed their ontological dispositions the wall of the prison stayed the same. It is creating a negative interference into the texture of the city and society pushes that piece of grit towards the outskirt of the city. Design The proposal for detention center is rejecting a negative interference of punitive architecture and creating a different intensities in the inside and the outside perimeter of the fence. By resisting diagrammatic process the assemblage is produced in non-generic way by expressing the importance of the target group, adopting surroundings and including public space... and everything started from analising and expressing the idea of the line. The line which has a power to evolve into different types of body restrictions: graphic elements, negative or positive obstacles, see through elements. My defence speach started: “Imagine taking a walk through a park and heading towards the river. You see the line growing and changing its form, gaining thickness, enveloping volumes and melting into the ground. It does not have objects to recognize the scale, it does not have a code of identification just a sign which determines the function -“Detention Center of London”.” “The line is traced from above, its author has a total vision of the space, and he is amused to see bodies below subjected to his architecture.” L. Lambert

A and B closed prisons 58% - convicted 25% - non-custodial sentence 17% - proceeded against

errors of the system > target group >

-29400 released after trial in 2012

Theoretical background was presented in graphic schemes. They were analysing the situation in juridical apparatus of England in 2012. During the research the module of imprisonment system cleared out together with some errors. It gave a background to create a precedent for a new type of facility. A person on remand. It is a suspect who can not be releast for sertain reasons but at the same time he can not be treated as a prisoner, held with prisoners or restricted like one. England is a country where the system of modern prison was born. Despite the old history it has one of the most troubled and contradicting system of justice in Europe. Hight numbers of people on remand, long term procedures and no facilities to serve for it.

pre-charged detention + remand population = 17% {prison population}

56 days {minimal time in custody} 91 days {the average on remand} 12 months {maximum time in custody} <=6month {minimal sentence} The sentence itself can be less than the time spent on remand.

image ^ conceptual model {merging private and public}

image ^ model from 2D to 3D

image ^ Japanese ink

image ^ thresholds /defining layers

image ^ extracting /abstracting

plan in situation > A public park “Lyle” next to the river Thames is located in Silvertown. A region in the industrial part of London which has a perspectives of new urban developments in coming 20 years. The location is experiencing massive changes and has an ambition to become a second economic and cultural center of London. This is a possibility to embed this excluded facility into harmonious urban fabric together with a settings of Public Park. Careful placement of facility was followed by responsibility to understand a power relations within juridical apparatus and assemblage of functional units.

< conceptual models According to G. Deleuze “disciplinary societies” defined by M. Foucault were changed into “society of control”. A tower in the middle and a guard observing individual is changed by a code for individuals in a clusters and they are tracked in an open, constantly changing and interweaving spaces. Japanese marble ink was chosen media to convey the meaning of this in a combination with the power of the line in architecture. By working with this technique series of drawings were made in different settings, like changing nature of ink, paper, time scale, or water container. The assemblage of different aspects, collected during the process of research, dictated to see a certain qualities and to choose one drawing for deeper analysis. A processing drawing by changing thresholds created a stronger patterns to define layers, which led into abstract tracing, and getting the main lines to place on the site area. The lines were modified by implying a programmatic value of the facility and by adopting a public function by smothering and blending one into other.

< ground floor plan fragmented ground floor > The building starts from the road sign with the notion about the function of the building and the building itself starts from the growing and evolving line. Line on the plan which divides entering paths towards the building and the park. The entering zone has two entrances who are expressed in a mirrored way to hold the idea that no matter of a legal status both sides are innocent until it is proven differently. Reception is a point where every individual gets a tracking device according to his reason of stay: visitor, stuff member or arrested. By your status in the system you are getting a programmed schedule or possibility to open a certain door. Just like “Felix Guattari has imagined a city where one would be able to leave one’s apartment, one’s street, one’s neighborhood, thanks to one’s dividual electronic card that raises a given barrier; but the card could just as easily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours; what counts is not a barrier but the computer that tracks each person’s position-licit or illicit- and effects a universal modulation ” From reception to a checking point. This is a clearly bigger volume to express a critical threshold which divides different set of rules in a working apparatus. Despite this the fallowing spaces are keeping visual qualities of the building. The building does not have a central tower or anything like it. Instead of that it has a space where volumes, voids, surfaces, interior and exterior are intersecting and out of it creating guidance indications.

Ground floor unit / fragments

image ^ model of main structural elements {3D print / laser cut}

image ^ architectural section {administration part}

image ^ vertical section {facade fragment}

< structure > All this city within the city is covered by the roof structure as a secondary sky. Curved lines are transforming from roof element into the wall which smoothly connects interior private space and public space of a city park. To vanish a strong line between different surfaces of a roof structure and greenery, planted roof idea was used.

Fiberglass concrete was taken for the outer layer. Fairly light material can be custom made for double curved surfaces and to get 3D forms. The tiles with voids were created to keep growing medium in place and in this way to make smooth connection between building and a park.

image ^ structural composition {roof fragment}

image ^ vertical section {facade/roof fragment}

image ^ floor plan {living unit}

image ^ architectural section {living unit /double cell}

image ^ elevation {living unit}

< living unit > From extreme public went into extreme private â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the unit of cells. Surfaces changed into softer materials. Space is (cell 7,6 sq. m. standard 5,5 sq.m), of a simple configuration to keep the notion of contemporary condition of the body in the facility. There are 8 or 10 cells in each unit. Some of them are with double beds. There was a research made to find out about the position of remanded people about double capacity cells. Slightly less than 50 % of people said that they prefer to live with someone in one room. A psychological discomfort after being secluded from the society could be minimized even by a total stranger sharing with you the same experience. The secondary corridor in the outside of the unit is connecting all the units in one floor. Parallel two corridor condition is created to have a possibility to isolate certain unit of cells and at the same time to reach the others in the emergency situations like riots or demonstrations etc. While living units are getting more and more distant from the administration unit. The exterior corridor also changes its width because of decreasing number of people. (Widest place 4 m, narrowest place 2 m.) The floor of an outside corridor is made out of metal grid which most of the time is elevated over the water. The main load bearing structure is made from 3d slightly changing metal grid. The inside of this structure is covered with a metal mesh. It secures the users of the building not only by physical meaning but also by protecting identity. Metal mesh creates double visual relations: a person from the inside is able to see the outside easily but a person from the outside, let say from the park, can see just a silhouette of a figure. The building surrounds it self and the fence is disappearing. The connection between the land and the water helps to create a building with an open perimeter and to express as a notion for a new type of detention center. image ^ outside corridor {living unit}

image ^ view from the river {living unit}

The new design proposes to reject a negative interference of punitive architecture and to create a different intensities in the inside and outside perimeter of the wall. By resisting diagrammatic process the assemblage is produced in non-generic way by expressing the importance of the target group, adopting surroundings and creating the contact with a public space.

image ^ interior {administration}

“Hyperbody 1to1” {pavilion} location: NL, Rotterdam date: 2012 spring tutors: J. Feringa, S. Oesterie, M. Rippmann

image ^ detail of the pavilion

Abstract Architecture design is no longer dictated by form with structure following. Structures have become an integral part of the formfinding process and the same can be said for materiality. It is possible to propose a “new structuralism” in which materials are the starting point followed by structure and finally form. Tools One of the main consequences of CAD is that free form designs have no means to be accurately produced and are condemned to the “digital realm”. Recently, the revival of the bottom-up approach is essentially an effort to develop strategies that enable “digital free forms” to become reality. In this case, the initial constrains are determined by EPS foam blocks, robotic hot-wire cutting and the use of Rhinovault and Python digital design tools. “Experimentation is always a risk, it puts researchers into position which is as rewarding as difficult.”

RhinoVAULT

image ^ output samples

Intuitive design of compression-only shapes, offering a maximum control of the geometry. The software is written for shaping unreinforced masonry vaults, but can also be used for designing free form shells. Based on the Thrust Network Approach, which uses a network as discretization of the shape. It is possible to internally redistribute forces within the network diagrams. 19

< slicing EPS block

< bounding box

< cutting path taper

< tapered blocks

process

< cutting path contour

< finished blocks

EPS blocks are cut into the bounding box dimensions of each piece. The bounding box is the first of 3 cutting steps each piece requires. The piece cut to bounding box dimensions, is carefully placed centred on the hot-wire cutting tool to taper the block. The tapered block is precisely placed align the cutting path of the robot. The robot follows the target path to cut the contours of the tapered block in a continuous path. The waste material is removed from the final piece. The thickness and taper of each block is verified.

The dimensions of the cut piece are cross-referenced with the digital model. The quality controlled piece is tagged on 4 sides with the name of the piece, side of piece and name of connecting piece.

image ^ from 2D to 3D {tiles design}

image ^ assembly principle of elements

image ^ overview rendering with general dimentions

image ^ dragon skin {detail of pavilion}

image ^ final outcome {pavilion and badass robotic arms}

“Kalunda” {recreational complex} location: LT., Drąseikiai vil. date: 2011 summer client: Č. Kalunda {meets standards of EU support}

image ^ site plan

Client Recreational function had to be implemented in a beautiful site next to the Kiršinas river. The qualities of the site like old forest and wild meadows had to be preserved but at the same time it had to be accessible for people. The quality of constant changing relief and natural settings were used to create a scattered complex of objects like: pergolas, observation towers, fire places, park of sculptures, footpath and more. Proposal Together with the client the best strategic places were selected for placing the objects. Overview towards the river from the natural slope and natural meadow surrounded by forest were priority spots for two separate recreational clusters. To have tangible relation with the place only prime materials were used: wood, stone, clay etc. Suggestion for the processing of building materials was also to avoid synthetic products and colors. For example the clay for fire place had to keep its natural tones, wood had to be treated with iron sulfate which darkens and enhances the structure of the wood. Despite the intention to get closer to the nature the architecture itself is standing out. Strict and straight lines are not letting for the objects to disappear. No raw trunks or curvy branches are used to avoid faking and replicating the nature.

*The project had to be prepared according to forest management regulations and had to meet the rules of European union funding standards.

drawings < ^ > part of the project {pergola /observation point}

“Paplauja” {quarter revitalisation} location: LT. Vilnius, a distr., between Subačiaus str. & Vilnelė riv. date: 2011 summer main tutor: doc. dr. D. Dijokienė

image ^ conceptual model

Issue Paplauja is one of the oldest industrial areas in Vilnius and one of the most forgotten, despite the fact that nature and the city center is right next to it. Urban texture of the district lacks of public spaces, volumetric scale differentiation and general organisation. During Soviet annexation it was turned into industral zone and cutted out from the city. Proposal The general decision was to bring new habitants towards the district by creating living areas oriented towards the river but at the same time to avoid privatisation of the rivers perrimeter. Public cpaces, culture and education functions, new office buildings and living units are interweaving and pouring towards the nature.

image ^ site plan {detailed territory}

section through Paplauja str. {detailed territory}

new intervention ^ VilnelÄ&#x2014; river is running in the North part and it dictates the composition and expression of a new intervention. Green spaces are left for public use. It works together with an old complex of factory buildings which was converted into a cultural center. It becomes a dominant volume because of two chimneys who were

preserved in the project. From dense urban line a sequence of open public terraces, footpaths, pedestrian bridges and new open amphitheater are woven into a park. The park is scattering the urban objects the other way around. Volumes are growing and getting more and more dense towards the street line. 27

image ^ model of the detailed territory {1/500}

image ^ a part of detailed plan {housing}

image ^ elevation {housing + commertial}

image ^ section {housing + commertial}

“Explore more” {primary school} location: LT. Vilnius, Jerualė str. date: 2009 summer main tutor: assoc., prof., dr. K. Lupeikis second tutor: doc. S. Mikštas

image ^ physical model

Dedication The primary school “Explore More” is dedicated for youngest ones. For those who will be doctors, astronouts and explorers, after they grow up. Explanation Layout: Nature or elements of nature were helping to create the building itself. The forest is not only surrounding the building it also spreads inside of it. Inside yeards are creating interior/exterior playgrounds, botanical garden and amphitheatre, where pupils can be safe and explore more. The curvy perimeter of yards is changing the face of a long and dark corridors in schools. Here, the corridor has the scale differentiation and personal spaces are created to make it more cozy and inviting to play in the natural daylight. The school facilities are organised in one level. Clear visual axis and ergonomic movement surfaces are ensuring easy surveilance and accessibility. Only the volume of the sport hall is detached from the continuous layout to avoid distraction and keep the silence during classes. All the classrooms are oriented towards the natural objects and protected from the intensive and noisy street. Every classroom has an extra roof window to guarantee enough light. First grade pupils have an extra room for resting, playing or other needs. Canteen is oriented in the North side of the building, where no direct light is needed. It also can be converted into the theater scene. The task was to create a safe, healfy and playful environment, which is inviting to learn not only during the lessons, but also outside the classroom.

image ^ plans {underground & ground floor}

Primary school â&#x20AC;&#x153;Explore Moreâ&#x20AC;? is dedicated for those who will be astronouts. scientists and explorers, after they grow up.

image ^ elevation and section

â&#x20AC;&#x153;SUNhouseâ&#x20AC;? {housing} location: catalogue proposal {first phase} 2009 autumn team work with: G Linder and P. Heideman

image ^ physical model

Proposal CCstudio was creating a self initiated project oriented towards prefabricated but at the same time flexible housing. The principle idea was to have a shell of a glasshouse which works as an insulation layer. It is not only saving the costs of heating but also gives the possibility to use semi-open gardens 3/4 of the year. To give a freedom for the inhabitants the system of concrete division walls and tracks were created, where different sized volumes can be hanged and rearranged . The owner design his own floor plan and have complete freedom in the use of materials for the inside and the outside of their house. The building line of passive solar houses creates a dynamic and open environment, where each house is unique. Every person or a fammily have their own vision, a life style and phylosophy towards the living space and it can be materialised while creating a consistent and harmonious urban environment. Process CCstudio has been asked to collaborate with an existing initiative within the projectplan for the Veemarkt in Utrecht called Blok Y.

idea scheme

image ^ general dimentions and elements

image ^ examples of possibilities

image ^ general impression

It is not related with anything... There were two men traveling in the desertâ&#x20AC;Ś The first man was from the city. His perception of traveling was linear - with a map in his hands, counting miles in his head, crossing spot after spot. He always had the end of his journey - his lighthouse - his home. The second man was a nomad. He was fallowing summer breeze and tracing rivers, he was counting mountains and asking seas for a mercy. His home was never ending journeyâ&#x20AC;Ś and they were traveling through dunes with no end and no beginning. The wind was an architect of sand waves and night sky was the only roof over their heads. A man from the city lost his hope to reach the spot on the map which was marking the end of his journey and he said: - We are lost! Nomad was surprised by this statement and just calmly replied: - What do you mean we are lost? We are here. it is related with everything.

email : monika.augaityte@gmail.com mobile: +370 600 60389