portfolio Jana Brankova
General
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+420 728 528 336 jana.brankova@gmail.com issuu.com/morgian
Work Experience 10/2011 - 2013
Chapman Taylor Shanghai www.chapmantaylor.com.cn
02/2010 - 08/2011
Martin Matiska Architect www.atelierum.cz
Education 2009 - 2011
Czech Technical University in Prague Architecture and Urbanism, postgraduate degree 2011
2008 - 2009
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture en Bretagne, France, internship
2005 - 2008
Czech Technical University in Prague Architecture and Urbanism, undergraduate degree 2008
Language
very good good beginner
IT Skills
English French Chinese
Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp
qiantan residential competition at Chapman Taylor
The aim of the competition was to design a residential block in Shanghai Pudong New Area.
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CHINA
Site Fill
Footprint
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B B
L B
B B
NIGHT Layout
WET
DAY
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Facade
Top
Site Fill
Creating Inner Street and Smallet Courtyards
Creating a Block and a Court
Connecting Courtyards
Volume
Densify
Among three options given to client, this one attempts to combine european-like public space on the podium level with asian style high rise housing. Huge space inside the block is divided into more private courts shared by its inhabitants, Pedestrian street full of shops and restaurants gives opportunity to meet friends and observe the city life. Proposed layouts shifts importance on pleasures of living than mere code complying arrangement of rooms. Facade concept is very general in a sense of more abstract approach enabaling flexibility of usage where the facade is not a mosaic of utilitarian windows exactly responding to the program behind. Project complies with Shanghai Municipality Codes.
huangpu river competition Competition at Chapman Taylor; 1st PRIZE
Aerial View
Concept Site for the new masterplan of Shanghai Pudong New Area is situated south of the EXPO area. Existing Shanghai Oriental Sport Centre occupies already huge space almost in the middle of the site. Spacial concept of the city is based on leaving the centre as it is and surround it by a rational grid which is derived from traditional chinese south– north orientation. The core of the area lies around the transport hub, three metro lines and bus station. The urban blocks have large scale there as well as high density with less open spaces., the largest one being around the transport hub. The city mass gets more fragmented towards the river transforming slightly into calmer low rise city with more opportunities for outdoor activitires highlighted by the wet land area in south-west corner. Main artery road runs through as spine in north-south direction making connection to EXPO site in the north and planned forest park in the south.
Masterplan
rethinking suzhou creek
Competition, cooperation with Ondřej Dušek and Jan Karásek; 1st PRIZE
Concept [1] Can a city river become more than a mere vista? Doing embankments “European-style� is wrong for Chinese cities. Promenades and green belts all the way along the riverbank do not bring any considerable value to the place. [2] Think about Chinese cities – they are well known for their living public space. People are not afraid to use and exploit their surrounding - indeed this is often given by necessities, but over the years it has become a way of live. Do not forget about this trait - it is one often unseen yet wanted in many cities across the globe. [3] So let the River become another busy city street! It is vast open space in the middle of dense city. But it can become vast public space. Such that allows you to use it in a way the streets and roads cannot be: It can serve travel and transportation, but it is the program itself that can also be transported. The river can become a plug-in city in its own way! [4] Thus we can reverse the city to place where people stay, while the program comes to them. Here it is the program that can come to its user, not the other way around. One can stay at his neighborhood and have a market under his windows in the morning, festival at noon and an entertainment district at night. And you will not be limited by selection - the public space is open to anyone willing to offer his services. [5] We propose a city that changes in time and place, a city that is always perceived differently. Traditional longlasting connections are broken and new temporal are created - such that form only when they are convenient: A new flexible neighborhood is born.
extension of a family house Project with Matěj Žaloudek, built 2013
Concept Extention of the second floor crealy identify itself as a newly added piece with its own independent expression. It is connected to the former house by a metal joint, which allowed a passage underneath as well as a balcony with view over the garden in the back and the city in distance. Building upon a garage keeps project sustainable in principle. Wooden load-bearing strucuture was necessary due to tiny foundations of garage.
Plan
Section
city above the railway Final Thesis, at CTU studio Jan Šépka and Mirka Tůmová
Present Main railway station in the city centre is like a scar on the urban face. Bounded by a steep cliff in the north and speed highway in the south, this land is one of the most inaccessible places in Prague. The old Art Nouveau station is cut off the city tissue and is extremly neglected. Main access to station is through metro station underneath and through a dangerous park nicknamed Sherwood on the south.
Concept Bring the detached old Railway Station into the city tissue by creating a multilevel public space, include the main north-south city highway into the pedestrian and tramway system rising the value of public spaces in this area. Project gives opportuinty for new developement in city centre and gives a more safer public courtyard parks. The old building regains its dominant position is it deserves.
Main View
NÁMĚSTÍ
VSTUP DO MĚSTA
3 ÚROVNĚ
Aerial View
Interior View
city inside a city
Masterplan at CTU studio Jan ˇŠépka a Mirka Tůmová
Concept Why built on a beautiful landscape around the lake if there is still enough space inside a city? Task given by the teacher was to create a new part of the city of Most around newly emerging lake. This lake used to be a hole left after exploitation of coal in this mining area. City itself was built in 6Os after the historical centre was destroyed to give way to coal mining. Influenced mainly by modernism and communist mass housing projects, nowadays city of Most lacks identity and standard of living is one of the lowest in the country. We chose a so-called brownfield area in a favorable position close to railway, highway and well connected to public transport. Former warehouses were demolished as the coal mining decreased rapidly and sport stadiums, shopping centres and school facilites found their place, but there is still enough space in between. All the infrastructure is already there very far from any walking distance from the city. Why not fill it with inhabitants and create a low rise part of the city where its inhabitants can experience intimacy and identity for the first time in their lives?
Masterplan
Street View
Concept Scheme Spacial form was derived from existing facilities, but the scale and texture keeps consistency as a overlayed carpet.
Regulation Plan
Street Views
saint brieuc
Regulation project at ENSAB studio Jerome Habersetzer Team with Juan Buenfil, Tamara Jaquin and Veronika Polรกkovรก
Concept Parking space just in the middle of the old town right next to a gothic church gives a possibilty for creating modern and unique dominant. The horizontal volume is shaping a regular streetfront on one side, on the other side igives the leisure and shopping life to the new public space. Residential towers are as high so it doesn’t disturb the perception of the church from streetview, giving the residents privacy and view to the sea bay.
Massing
Regulation
tower in saint brieuc Project at ENSAB studio Jerome Habersetzer
Concept Onde of the towers was further developed into o project following the regulation plan. First floor is free, second and third contains office spaces which are disconnected from the “habitable� top by a shared garden and gym. Typical floor plan is divided into two flats with access for disabled people.
Masterplan
Typical Floor Plan
conversion of an old farm Project at ENSAB studio Yves Guillaume Team with Gaetan LebossĂŠ
Concept Precedent workshop among 8 students resulted in a set of guidelines for a rural developement in heritage protected area in coastal Normandy. This work was further developed into example projects. Transforming this abandoned farm into distillery of calvados and cidre together with adjacent museum is in accordance with supporting local tourism and evaluation of traditional lifestyle in area. Whole project is based on learning about the process with later tasting of products.
Farm is like a shell which is inhabitated by a new organism, machinery. Newly added structure makes clear distinction from what is old and what is new.
velux international award
Competition with Anna Anděrová, Jan Auerbach and Ondřej Dušek
Concept Four volumes immitating light conditions in different natural envirnments - the sea, the desert, the bush and tropical rainforest. A visitor can experience changing light conditions while passing on an elevated ramp through the vertical ZOO or diffused light in the underground water tank.
1ST AVENUE
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
DA JUNGLE
38TH STREET
Concept Schemes
embankement in pilsen
Competition with Anna Anděrová, Jan Auerbach and Ondřej Dušek
Concept Embankment in Pilsen is a neglected empty space in a very nice location. Proximity of a river and green ring with museum in the north of the site gives it a value. But people just pass through. The passage is complicated by different elevations poorly solved by series of steps where anyone must go up and down up and down. Is it necessary to have such
a huge open space is nobody uses it? The proposal tries to enhance the passage function and intensify the space in the same time. Low podium is connectiong different heights of the terrain in each corner of the site. New pedestrian bridge connects the cultureal centre on the opposite side of the river. Corner building is a response to the block of flats on the other site of the road, an ending of traditional street front. along the main acces road to the cit y centre.
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