ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
MURIEL MARRAFFA
ABOUT This portfolio is a compilation of different design projects completed at my current job in the architecture firm KoopX in Berlin and at the faculty of Architecture at Technical University of Delft. The work presented is of great variety, ranging from a large scale housing project to a redevelopment of a school. The aim is to display my ability to solve problems and my design skills in different fields.
MURIEL MARRAFFA 14.09.1990 DUTCH / FRENCH 0643422497 MURIEL.MARRAFFA@GMAIL.COM DOELENSTRAAT 91, 2282NX, RIJSWIJK (NL)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Oct 2016-Sept 2017 ASSISTANT DESIGNER KOOPX ARCHITEKTEN
FULL-TIME
BERLIN, DE
Mar 2015-Okt 2016 SERVICE-DESK MAURITSHUIS
PART-TIME
THE HAGUE, NL
Working on all the levels of the construction proces: Part of the design team for a new office space, Materialisation and facade design of several new buildings , Making construction plans and details of the final design. Customer-orientated work in the museum
Feb 2014
BRANDING DESIGN EFFIX ENGINEERING
30H
RIJSWIJK, NL
Mar-June 2013
INTERNSHIP KNEVEL ARCHITECTEN
FULL-TIME
AMSTERDAM, NL
Sept-Oct 2011
INTERNSHIP PLAYGROUND, ARCHITECTURE FIRM FULL-TIME
Design of the logo, business cards and letterheads for a recruitment agency
Assisting the architects during the design process and in the preparation of presentations Assuring the architects in designing and preparing work for meetings
EDUCATION
PARIS, FR
Jan 2016
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE TU DELFT
2013
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE TU DELFT
2008
FRENCH BACCALAUREAT (S) LYCÉE FRANÇAIS VAN GOGH IN THE HAGUE
2007
IELTS ENGLISH CERTIFICATE
Focus on Architecture and renovation in particular Exchange semester with the Architecture School of Versailles
Variated program and several courses about art history, construction and management
French high school degree
SECONDARY ACTIVITIES May-Nov 2016
EXPOSITION BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA VENISE
Aug 2015
ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOPS EASA MALTA
Exposition of the project of Supelec in the French pavilion during the biennial 2016
Restoration of an old cemetery in the fort of Valetta for the European Architecture Students Assembly
Sept-Oct 2012
VOLUNTARY WORK KUMASI GHANA
2010-2011
TREASURER 17TH BOARD OF DSKV PAAL CENTRAAL DELFT
2008-2012
VARIOUS COMMITTEES DSKV PAAL CENTRAAL
Support construction workers to build a day care centre
Budget and policy for a student association of 90 members
SKILLS
PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR INDESIGN SKETCHUP
AUTOCAD VECTORWORKS REVIT RHINO
DUTCH FRENCH ENGLISH GERMAN
mother tong mother tong fluent sufficient
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PROJECTS
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COLLABORATION IN VARIOUS PROJECTS BERLIN _ AUTUMN 2016
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RECONNECTING OOSTENBURG
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TRANSFORMATION OF AN OLD FACTORY INTO A LIVING AND WORKING AREA AMSTERDAM _ SPRING 2015
REDEVELOPMENT OF A SCHOOL WITHIN A NEW CAMPUS PARIS _ SPRING 2014
RENOVATION OF A BUILDING COMPLEX OF THE 17TH CENTURY DELFT _ AUTUMN 2013
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KOOPX ARCHITEKTEN GUIDO BOEHNING / BETTINA ZALENGA VARIOUS PROJECTS 2016-2017
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oopX is a small architecture firm consisting of four employees located in Berlin. The firm is composed of two partners, head architects Guido Boehing and Bettina Zalenga and two assistant designers. During this past year KoopX has had a variety of projects: several designs of penthouses on top of existing buildings, two single family houses, three apartment buildings of four to six floors and a remodelling of a new office in an existing building. All the projects are modelled from start to finish, carefully designed with special attention to detail. For KoopX, materialization and determining connecting and contrasting elements are as important as functionality and a strong concept. The identity formed at the beginning of the building process is carried out into detail during every step of the way to create an integrated and coherent building. Sustainability plays a major role in the design process, researching ways to create a low-cost energy saving solution adapted to every individual project. Due to the size of the office, the whole team works closely together to create the best possible design, using each other’s expertise and strengths. Every designer plays a key role in the process and has an influence on the decisions made. Program used: Vectorworks
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WINTERSTEINSTRASSE: Description: Competition between two architecture firms to create a new office space from an old industry for train assembly. After the first round, KoopX was selected to continue the remodelling of the space. The building is currently divided into two floors that have little interaction with each other. To avoid a separation in the office space, an active ground floor is created that will bring together the employees in spaces for silence work, brainstorming tables and a large conference room. To host the large quantity of employees, a new in-between level is created, open to the central space of the ground floor. The interior design reflects the identity of the future user, a multi-national company in recycling plastic. The new office space is open and innovative but also rough and straight forward.
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Description: The first floor has more resemblance to a standard office, with separate closed off rooms and meeting spaces. However, the floor concept and materialisation makes this floor special. From the stairs, a diagonal is drawn to the multifunctional auditorium. Along that diagonal special areas are created such as a printing bar, a phone booth, niches in the wall and an open coffee corner that leads to the auditorium. This active diagonal is materialised with plexwood walls to mark this route. Role: Being intensely involved in the process from the beginning, I played an important design role. I worked on the concept through the creation of floor plans, the 3D modelling and the materialisation. Currently, during the more advanced phase of the design, I am focussed on the detailing of the special elements as the green wall, the auditorium and the hanging tables on the ground floor.
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ZEUTHEN Description: Exclusive pavilion in the south of Berlin as main residence a retired couple. The clients have a clear and rational program of requirements with the amount of square meter per function and an affinity with the simple Bauhaus style. The most important challenge in this design is to create a dwelling with architectural qualities in the external design and in the organisation of space, respecting the wishes of the client. In this project two similar options were made. One based on a square plan, that favours the organisation of space rather than the form of the building. The other is a more stretched out building that is focussed on its location on the site. Role: In this project I worked on developing a floor plan according to the concept of creating a simple design of contrasting surfaces and to the requirements of the clients. I then translated the floor-plans to sections and 3D models.
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SACHSENSTRASSE
Description: Building consisting of luxurious apartment in Bauhaus style, a style that is greatly represented in Berlin. The design is simple and clear with only two surfaces distinguished, white for massive walls and dark for the glass panels. The neatness of the design is translated into the details.
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Role: I started working on this project during the last phase of design. To complete the final design, I made technical drawings of the facade, creating 1.25 and 1.5 details of the important points of connection, making them as smooth as possible.
TIETSTRASSE
Description: Adding two apartments on the roof storey of an old city building. Role: My role here was more superficial, it consisted of making the 3D model and creating images for the website of KoopX.
KIEFHOLZSTRASSE (next page)
Description: Creation of a six storey high apartment complex including eight maisonettes and a big office space. The building is a replacement for the current office of KoopX, creating a new bigger working space with room for expansion. The new building is essentially composed of prefabricated concrete elements to keep the construction time as short as possible. For this project it is fundamental to create as many identical elements as possible and when possible in standard dimensions. Role: My role in this project was very substantial. The
construction planning was key for this building so I concentrated on that part. I made sections clarifying the constructive structure of the building and figured out some crucial connecting points in details. Then I summed up and described all the different prefabricated elements making as many identical parts as possible. My role in the design was creating the window composition of the north and east facades and pitching ideas for the material and colour that would complement the concrete and glass surfaces.
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RECONNECTING OOSTENBURG JOB ROOS - FRANK KOOPMAN GRADUATION PROJECT SPRING 2015 VAN GENDTHALLEN AMSTERDAM 13.000M²
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he van Gendthallen are 5 adjacent halls built between 1898 and 1910 as a factory for the railway industry. The building has a strong industrial character and can be described as a covered crane. It was built to fulfill its function as a factory and insure a smooth production process without focusing on the aesthetics. The factory is located on Oostenburg just outside of the World Heritage site of Amsterdam, but still in its city centre. With the departure of the industry in 1954, the building and its surrounding area became vacant. This is an opportunity for a total redevelopment of the area. The city of Amsterdam is focusing its current transformation on the harbour and industrial area. These sites provide a lot of unused spaces near the city centre. The objective of the council is to build 70,000 new dwellings before 2040 by intensifying the city centre. This way the city will become more compact and will not invade the surrounding landscape. This new development could start in Oostenburg and create a more dynamic area with a re-established connection to the inner city. Therefore the island of Oostenburg will be redeveloped into a combination of a living and working areas with space for leisure and meeting spaces. An important element in this redevelopment is the preservation of the identity of the area and the implementation of a certain flexibility to insure a long life span for the island. Programs used: Adobe package | AutoCAD | Sketchup
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SEPARATION
THE URBAN PLAN: RECONNECTION
CONNECTION SURROUNDINGS
CONNECTION WATER
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The main objective on the urban scale of the Oostenburg Island is the reconnection on different levels. The connection is made with the city centre of Amsterdam, but also within the area, between the different buildings and functions. This goal is to be reached without forgetting the rich history of the area. The area is composed of a combination of existing buildings and new additions that will provide more living space in different types of dwellings. The van Genthallen itself will host a great variety of functions: living, working, retail and restaurant. The internal organisation of space will be based on the surrounding with the working area near the water and the living area on the side of the new created apartment blocks. This way an interaction is developed between the building and its surroundings. To create a greater synergy in the living area, the building will be divided into different parts to involve the van Gendthallen in the urban dynamic and open the building up to the greater public. The first opening will open up the area to the water located on both sides of the island and the other in the longitude of the hall to connect with the new designed apartment blocks.
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OVERALL DESIGN: OPEN UP THE BUILDING
DOUBLE ORIENTATION BASED ON THE QUALITIES OF THE BUILDING
OPEN PUBLIC SPACE IN THE BIGGER HALLS CLOSED OFF PRIVATE SPACE IN HALLS 1, 3 &5
CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM SUPPORTING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HALLS: CONCRETE CORES/LOAD-BEARING WALLS
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To offer a livable space in the van Gendthallen some changes needed to be made. Opening up the building is the biggest intervention made that will provide sufficient daylight, enough fresh air and a certain quality of view. These openings are made according to the composition of the different halls. The second and the fourth halls are the biggest and are the halls where the qualities of the building and the construction are the most visible (image 1). This is why these two halls will stay open with very little new construction so the length and the height of the halls can be experienced. The open halls will have a public function as a street in hall 4 or will be a collective space for the working area in hall 2. The two halls adjacent to the working area, hall 1 and 3, will host a flexible working space for small businesses focused on the manufacturing industries. All the necessary equipment, as machineries, exhibition space and meeting areas, will be made available on site. In hall 5 and the upper part of hall 3, different types of dwelling are created. Hierarchy between the halls Ground Floor (all halls) scale 1.200 First Floor (all halls) scale 1.200
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In halls 3 and 5, five different types of dwellings are made to fit the need of the diverse targets, vary in size and in organisation of space. Some are shown on the left side of this page. In hall 3 the apartments located on the first floor are organised as studios with a working space at the top, between the trusses. The individual and family houses are located in hall 5. These vary in size going from a studio (90m²) to a multiple layered house (300m²). This will create an interesting mix of residents having affinity with monuments and industrial heritage. All the dwellings created are in great connection with the existing structure of van Gendthallen due to the placing of the living area on the side of the existing facade. The biggest qualities of this building are its roof trusses and its big windows. In this space the most important challenge is to provide comfort for the inhabitants without compromising the qualities and identity of this monument. The new facade is a combination of wood slats to provide a warm and cosy atmosphere and fibre concrete panels to reconnect with the industrial past of the building.
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On the first floor of halls 2 and 4 platforms are created to connect the adjacent spaces to each other. The focus is on the platform in hall 4. An impressive construction is made to reach the large distance of 36m between the bearing points where the lift and
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1. the stairs are located. This construction is composed of two 3D trusses between which wooden beams are strained. The rawness and the size of the construction works as a reminder of the train tracks and of the industrial function the building used to have.
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PLATFORM HALL 4: COMMUNAL ROOF GARDEN The platform is divided into two different levels with 1m difference. One level serves as an open corridor for the dwellings in halls 3 and 5 and the other level in the middle serves as a collective roof garden for the inhabitants. All the spaces in-between the bearing points have a different identity. Some are meeting areas with possibility of picnics and barbeques and playing areas for the children. Others are more private and green with high bamboo to provide a quiet area for the inhabitants that seek quietness. On the ground floor, underneath the platform a multi-func-
tional space is created that can be use as an outside working area for big projects but also as an exhibition area for the work produced in the rest of the building. This project is a renovation assignment but gives a great freedom of design. The size of the building and its old state offer a multitude of design direction. I took up the challenge of inserting a standard function of working and living into a special building of the industrial epoch and combining the requirements for a functional space with the existing qualities of the building.
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JEAN-PATRICE CALORI - BITA AZIMI-KHOĂ? VISIBLE IN THE FRENCH PAVILION FOR THE BIENNIAL OF VENISE 2016 EXCHANGE SEMESTER SPRING 2014 SUPELEC PARIS
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upelec is an engineering school near Paris that forms elite engineers in the electronics sector in France. The building was built in 1974 as an isolated object in the nature. The architecture of the building is very recognisable and has a strong identity that is well liked by the students of Supelec. The building is very functional but is totally detached from its context. However, with the building of a new campus around it, the school is having a new environment that it can no longer ignore. The objective of this project is to link the school to its new surroundings. The fusion of Centrale, another engineering school, and Supelec to become one bigger engineering school strengthens the necessity of connecting the new building of Centrale already designed by OMA and the existing building of Supelec. Programs used: Adobe package | AutoCAD | Sketchup | Artlantic
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CONNECTING BY CREATING A NEW DYNAMIC The building, getting an all-new context, will require updating to be able to fit in. Not only does the internal organisation of space need to be rethought but also the external connection with its surrounding. In this project the tool used to link the building to its surroundings is digging. There is a lot of altitude difference in the building of Supelec itself and in its surroundings. This will be used to create extra functions as a new swimming pool underneath the existing hill and will valorise the building. The entrance level is replaced from level +1 to level -1 to create a monumental entrance square from
Model: overall view of the building Model: internal landscape 3D view: digging of the hill
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where the students can step into the building. From the new modern entrance, the attention is brought to the sports hall, the most central space of the building where the students gather to practice or watch various games. To enhance the connection between the different levels stands are placed facing the sport fields, which can also be used for big presentations or seminars concerning the whole school. That leads to a small courtyard which flows into an elevated open space creating a terrace with an overview over the nature located behind.
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COLLECTIVE AREA IN THE CENTRE A survey conducted amongst the students of Supelec has shown that orientation within the building was difficult. The school is composed of small labs and an endless numbers of corridors making it hard for the students to find their way. To solve that problem we created a separation between the centre of the building and its peripheries simplifying the floor plans. In the new design the central area will be completely redeveloped and the peripheries will only be connected to the central part by four passageways. The central area will become a collective open area where the students can meet, study and eat. All the exiting bearing walls will be replaced by a new construction system to create an open plan around the sport field. A new glass roof will bring a big amount of
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1. daylight to the central space and the new roof structure will allow the big span of 50m without additional support. In this project the liberty of design was of great importance. As the building is not listed as a monument, there was the freedom of modifying the existing envelop. However it was important to evaluate very carefully the characteristics of the building to avoid wasting its existing qualities. At the end the new design of Supelec will allow levelling with the new building of Centrale to which it is connected, without losing its identity. A new monumental entrance will put the building in the spotlight and an internal organization of space will allow more meeting and studying space.
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OVER THE BRIDGE WIDO QUIST - BERT VAN BOMMEL AUTUMN 2013 ARMAMENTARIUM DELFT
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he Armamentarium is made up from different buildings of different ages. The two biggest buildings were built in 1602 and 1692. These buildings were used as storage for the army. In 1986 the building lost its function as storage place and became a museum of the army. In 2013 two museums of the army merged in another building in Soesterberg, leaving this one empty. The building complex, made of solid masonry, has a simple structure of wings around three courtyards. The building is isolated from the centre due to its location, surrounded by water and the lack of accessibility. The goal is therefore to assure the building regains its important status in the city bringing new dynamic and extra qualities to Delft. A multitude of functions are set around the theme “heart meets head” to assure the reconnection. The program consists of a conference centre, an office area, a museum, a hotel and catering facilities. The main challenge in converting the Armamentarium in Delft is to combine several functions in this large historical ensemble of buildings of in total 11.000 m² and offer the opportunity for the inhabitants of Delft to rediscover this historical building. Program used: Adobe package | Revit | AutoCAD
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ENHANCING THE ROOF CONSTRUCTION
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ENHANCING THE BUILDING All the changes made to the building are based on a concrete value assessment and have as goal to enhance the quality of the Armamentarium. The courtyards currently dark and unused will become more active by generating a meeting place. The double roof trusses are unique in the Netherlands and deserve to be shown off. For that reason a new glass roof is designed to light up the existing construction that will also bring a big amount of brightness to the spaces underneath it. The Armamentarium was a rather introverted building. There were a few visitors a day and the building
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was very closed off from the rest of city. In the new design the goal is to bring new life to the building and to the whole plot and to encourage more people to enter it. To reach this objective a dynamic ground floor is created where all the public functions are located. The inside and outside world are connected through this. Also the entrances for all the different functions are separated from each others and all located on the ground floor creating movement on the plot visible for the outside world.
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INTRODUCING A SPECIAL FORM One other element meant to attract more people to the plot is a special form made out of steel that is used as a sign of transport, both vertical as horizontal. The steel structure is applied to the entrance of the museum, to the stairs and to the bridge between the two buildings. This form is visible twice from the outside, bringing a new modern allure to the building and making it more appealing for the visitors to enter the plot.
In this design project the biggest challenge was to give a second life to an existing museum that became isolated from its surrounding through its static function. With the creation of a new iconic entrance and a bridge that uses new construction techniques, the building will stand out and draw attention without loosing its history.
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