Portfolio - Natalia Piórecka - Architecture and Biodesign by Natalia Piórecka

Natalia P i ó rec ka

Architectural Portfolio

Courses:

Education: Sep 2016 Jun 2019

Newcastle University, Architecture BA (Part 1) First Class Honours Dissertation: MYCOsella - Growing the Mycelium Chair Graduation Project: „Palace of Salt and Wellness” Salt SPA in Venice

- Winner of the Ecovative Design Mycelium Design Competition (New York, USA) - Mycelium Chair - NCL+ Award for extra-ciricural activity - RSH+P bursary for education achievements (one out of

two students awarded from stage 2 and 3 of the Architecture

Personal Info: Full Name: Natalia Beata Piórecka Date of birth: 25/03/1997 Nationality: Polish Address: 21 Hullbridge Mews London N1 3QU

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ natalia-piórecka-9a2981146/

- Fluid Form Modeling using Maya (ZHA, Sci-Arc) - Introduction to Robotic Fabrication (Bartlett UCL)

Activities:

- Urban Geo-data and Grasshopper (Chalmers University of Technology)

ACADIA 2020 - Distributed Proximities: - In Silico, In Vitro, In Vivo: Programming in Processing and in Life (HBBE, Newcastle University)

Futurly: - Fluidity // MAYA (ZHA/AADRL)

Sep 2013Apr 2016

XXVII Tadeusz Czacki High School in Warsaw (extended Mathematics, Physics and IT) - FCE Cambridge First Certificate in English - CAE Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English - Aptis English Exam - PRO-STAFF animation certificate - Tourist entertainer - the 6th place in the exam results in Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2016)

https://www.issuu.com/ nataliapiorecka/docs/ (link to online portfolios and dissertation)

@nataliapiorecka https://www.behance.net/ nataliapirecka

- Discrete // RHINO+GH (Futurly) - Synthetic // SIMULATIONS (University of Innsbruck)

DesignMorphine: - Dream Flake V3 (Design Morphine, Nike)

Activities: - Leader of an Art Group in Tadeusz Czacki High School for Annual Theatre Festival (Warsaw, Poland) -“WOŚP- Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy”z „The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity”- voluntary work in the organization, collecting funds for life-saving medical devices - “Bank Żywności, podziel się posiłkiem”- Food bank, voluntary work collecting food products for the people in need

Software Skills:

Professional Experience: Oct 2019Jul 2021

Medical Architecture, (London, United Kingdom) Part 1 Architectural Assistant - assisting and closely collaborating with the architects on a broad range of projects, as masterplans, landscapes, building and interior design, construction details and strategies - providing all necessary content and documentation from technical drawings, presentations, diagrams or sketches to visualisations and strategies - working with various RIBA Design Stages, along with HBN standards, on projects with various procurement routes for UK Trusts - mentoring and providing support for the new Architectural Assistants joining the company

Other Skills: - Model making - Technical detailing - Research Application - Problem-solving - Organizing - Team working - Critical thinking - Sketching - Photography

Global Visting School - Online 2020:

- Environmental Design for Architects (rat[LAB])

(+48) 513 107 750 (+44) 7919 108 424 nati.piorecka@gmail.com npiorecka@wp.pl (alt.)

- Scalable Tectonics: Speculative Futures (rat[LAB])

programme)

- The Founder and President of Polish Society at Newcastle University - Student Peer Mentoring - Newcastle University APL Degree Show 2017 & 2019 - Committee Member of the Marketing Team and Publication Team - Course Representative, Newcastle Univeristy Open Days - Intern in DOMIN art school - Teacher of architectural drawing and digital art painting (Warsaw, Poland)

Contact:

DigitalFUTURES.world 2020:

Jul 2018 Aug 2018

COLOMBE Design, (Warsaw, Poland) Architecture Assistant - working in a team of Interior Designers and Architects, - collaborating with clients and professional contractors - designing interiors and various furnishing through development of material understanding and architectural drawings

Nov 2017 Mar 2018

Languages:

Xsite Architects, (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) Mentee in RIBA North East Student Mentoring Programme

English: Polish: German: Dutch:

- a comprehensive and immersive experience, introducing into the day to day running of an architectural practice - enhancing learning experience by construction site visits - exposing to design projects, practice management and client/ professionals meetings associated with project delivery

fluent native basic elementary

Jun 2017 Jul 2017

ART-TU Architectural Office, (Warsaw, Poland) Architecture Assistant - proactively improving architectural skills working on housing projects and directly collaborating with architect and the client

References: Rachel Armstrong Professor of Experimental Architecture Newcastle University Email: Rachel.Armstrong3@ newcastle.ac.uk

Christopher Shaw Senior Director in Medical Architecture Email: Christopher@ medicalarchite.com

Martyn Dade-Robertson Professor of Emerging Technology, Co-Director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment Newcastle Univeristy Email: martyn.dade-robertson@ ncl.ac.uk

Graduation Project „Il Palazzo di Sale e Benessere” Date: Year 3, Final Year (2018/19) Location: Venice, Italy Studio: Experimental Architecture Supervisor: Rachel Armstrong (rachel.armstrong3@newcastle.ac.uk) Andy Campbell (andy@dressfortheweather.co.uk) The project “Il Palazzo di Sale e Benessere” is my individual, academic, graduation project based in Venice, Italy. Its main objectives were to challenge the boundaries of the architectural design through the Experimental Architecture and exploring the intersection of the architecture with biology. The proposal introduce the salt production, being of great importance for historical Venice. It builds upon traditional Italian natural salt production using the evaporation salt ponds method. Resulting “Il Palazzo di Sale e Benessere” (eng. Palace of Salt and Wellness) the development enrich the wellbeing around the Venetian Lagoon by exploiting greatest advantages of salt, naturally extracted from its nearby sea waters. The scheme features Salt SPA complex, providing various salt treatments, using the salt produced on the site and within the building itself. It aims to support the local people not only with a wide range of health benefits, but also with additional income, economical improvement and new job places, at the same time responding to current Venetian social challenges and environmental conditions. By the introduction of the salt ponds and salt facade, the development contribute to the surrounding ecosystem, supporting the environment not only for humans, but also for other species, and to air purification emitting the negative ions to the ecosystem.

Internal Spaces of the Salt SPA

Exterior View of the Salt SPA model produced in SketchUp

author of all the images on the pages: Natalia Beata Piórecka

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GROUND FLOOR 9

1. Salt Crystallization Salt Pond + Salt Structurs 2. Salt Channel for Collection in Harvest Area 3. Salt Harvest Area 4. Staff toilet 5. Production and Harvest Office 6.Pumping Area (for the Wet SPA) 7. Salt Ponds Control Office 8. Open Sitting Area 9. Café 10. Café Storage 11. Public Toilets 12. Pumping Area (for Salt Ponds) 13. Fire Safety Stairs + Lift 14. Public Stairs 15 Public Boat Access 16, 17. Main Entrance Doors 18. Salt Pond 1 - First Evaporation 19. Salt Pond 2 - First Evaporation 20. Salt Pond3 - Second Evaporation 21, 22. Exterior circulation - Ramp

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FIRST FLOOR 3

1. Salt Cave 2. Changing Room (Women) 3. Internal SPA circulation stairs 4. Changing Room (Men) 5. SPA Entrance 6. Storage 7. Bar 8. Reception 9. Staff Room 10. Life Guard Office 11. Wet SPA - Pools Area 12. Escape Corridor 13. Dry Sauna 14. Wet Sauna 15. Storage Room (SPA facilities) 16. Fire Safety Stairs + Lift 17. First floor SPA entrance 18. Public Stairs

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SECOND FLOOR

1. Toilets 2. Salt Inhalation room 3. Salt Steaming Room 4, 5, 6. Salt Treatment Rooms 7. Storage 8, 9, 10, 11. Salt Bathing Rooms 12. Wet SPA - Pools Area 13. Massage Room 14. Escape Corridor 15. Fire Safety Stairs + Lift 17. Public Stairs

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THIRD FLOOR 1. Public Stairs 2. Restaurant Kitchen 3. Toilets 4. Restaurant Dinning Area 5. Cloak Room 6. Restaurant Entrance 7. Fire Safety Stairs + Lift 8. Salt Terrace 9. Salt Pond 6 - Crystallizer

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Waterfront Elevation of the Salt SPA

author of all the drawigns on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Perspective Section Various Spaces Uses

RESTAURANT

DRY SPA WET SPA

RECEPTION

CAFE

HARVEST

BUILDING SITE

VENICE GIARDINI SITE

author of all the drawigns on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Structural Strategy

Salt SPA Form Finder: TERTIARY STRUCTURE

Salt Ponds

Environmental

Glazed salt pool structure

Concrete roof deck

SECONDARY STRUCTURE

Steel frame for glazed salt pool

Roof steel structure PRIMARY STRUCTURE

Concrete shell with steel supports

SECONDARY STRUCTURE (INTERIOR)

Interior steel frame structure

Foundation raft and piles

Pond 3. Second Evaporation

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Pond 4. Precipitation

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Source: Sea Salt Water

1. First Evaporation

Source: Sea Salt Water

Venetian Salt Ponds strategy

Processes of salt production

Environmental strategy

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SALT POND

ELECRTICAL PUMP

STEAM

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RAIN WATER COLLECTION TANK

SALINE-

SALT WATER PUMPS

BIRNE POND

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HARVESTED SALT DRY

CRYSTALLIZED SALT POND RAIN WATER FILTRATION INVERTER DC ->AC

METER

GROUND WATER HEATING

author of all the drawigns and detail on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

DESALINATION STATION

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COLD WATER FEED

1 Glass Reinforced Concrete Panels 70-150 mm (varies with shape) Insulation 100 mm Primary reinforced concrete structure 950 mm (Concrete class XS1 resistant to airborne salt exposure) Damp-proof course (DPC layer) Interior plaster finish 12.5 mm

2 Concrete roof panels (accessible for visitors) 20 mm Mechanically controlled salt pool rain protection cover (glazed layer, sliding over the pool top when raining) Damp-proof course (DPC layer) Screed 75 mm Shuttering board 40 mm Steel brackets Insulation 100 mm Steel decking composite floor slab 120 mm Stainless steel truss 500 mm (Services allocated between the voids) Plaster Board Ceiling

3 Salt Pool - high concentrated salt water 200 mm depth Laminated safety glass consisting of 12 x 12 mm toughened glass + 10 mm toughened glass

4 Sensor measuring the salinity level Sealed nozzle directing the brine onto the crystallizing structures Salina- Crystallizing Salt structure (Celebration Piece - Sculpture of Living, Crystallizing Salt) 5 GRC Sandwich Panels with: DPL 30mm rigid insulation double glazing panel fill, followed with salt rock block infill 80 mm stainless steel panel bracing I-beam 152mm Plaster Board Sealed protection 6 Supported Glazing System (double glazed curtain wall) 7 Sea Tide regulation pool max 4000 mm deep concrete shell 200 mm

8 High Tide Tank Regulating System with the spring - operated mechanical system, collecting the water during hight tides (preventing flooding the salt ponds on site)

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9 Drainage - regulating the water level in the Hight Tide tank 10 Interior floor finish Waterproof Membrane Marine concrete raft and piles foundation (concrete XS2 for permanently submerged structures) Raft 600 mm (1200 in maximum point) Piles 4000 mm depth Sand layer 200 mm Hardcore layer 300 mm

11 Coloured and customised solar PV panels 12 Fire Sprinkler Suspending ceiling accommodating servicing spaces

Detailed Construction Section of the Crystallizing Salt Column System in the Salt SPA 9

Manufacture of Salt Panel

author of the photograps and images on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Salt Health Benefits:

Air Purification by Salt Particles

SUN light & heat source

Purifies Air SALT PANEL

Improves Breathing

Improves Sleep

Decreases Stress

Reduces Allergy Symptoms

Increases Energy

Hydrolisation of salt releases negative ions into the air

Negative ions collide with positive ions in the air, forming new electrostatic compound

As a result of gravity these electrostatic compounds fall to the floor, removing harmful airborne particles

Salty Facade Salt infil The Salt facade is part of my graduation project „Il Palazzo di Sale e Benessere” in Venice and it is an experimental prototype of the facade panel, inspired by the salt experimentation. The facade panel is fabricated with the use of the digital tools, CNC machines together with traditional hand crafting techniques accommodating the salt infill. The panel is mimicking the square like shape of the natural salt crystals. The salt infill is a replaceable element that could be easily produced and exchanged within the site. It will bring several health benefits, by utmost which is the air purification. Heated by the sun salt rock infill would produce negative ions, which are believed to improve air quality. Salt facade panels are another element of SALINE -Il Palazzo di Sale e Benessere contributing to rising wellness around Venice and supporting its surrounding ecology and the environment.

Lighting Quality the salt Facade Panel - Panel and Light study with the physical model

Growing a Mushroom Building Bio-materials Research Centre Date: Year 2 (2017/18) Location: Durham Supervisor: Nikoletta Karastathi (nikoletta.karastathi@gmail.com) Andy Stoane (a.z.stoane@dundee.ac.uk) This project explores a uniquely light material made out of mushrooms, with a promising opportunities for future biodegradable architecture. The inspiration is directly driven from mushrooms, specifically from the site photographic study of the fungi - bracket fungi, that then evolved into a material research looking at fungi as a future building material. The proposal is a Biomaterial Research Centre where design and science would meet and fully explore mushroom material on various levels, by laboratory scientific on-site research, design workshop practise or even the inhabitation itself. The design concept is based on mathematical voronoi tessellation that mimics the shape of the Phallus Indusiatus and Neofavolus Alveolaris mushrooms. The voronoi tessellation creates polygons providing a series of cells, which then builds up the whole proposal, introducing a notative technique of gradually growing cells, floor by floor and fixing the cells on the top of the already grown one. Both form and the materials of the building design are led by the experimental approach using biodegradable material, grown out of the natural substrate bound with mycelium tissues, creating a solid building material, which gives a promising opportunities for the architectural building design

Photographic study

Bracket Fungus Phallus Indusiatus Neofavolus Alveolaris

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author of the drawigng and bracket mushroom photographs on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka author of all the Neofavolus Alveolaris photograph: Roland E Barth author of all the Phallus Indusiatus photograph: Vinayaraj V R,

Voronoi tessellation as a design concept

Randomly distributed points

Connecting the points with another point near them

Dividing the lines equally (in their half point) and crate perpendicular line on it

Extending the perpendicular lines until they intersect with another

Clearing the inappropriate lines and there the result of the voronoi diagram

Offsetting the polygons adding a thickness for each cell

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On site individual cell growth strategy:

Step 1 mold fixed and the steel reinforcement installed

Step 2 lose mycelium material

(substrate + mycelium tissues) placed in the mold

Step 3 material growth mycelium binds the substrate and turns the material white binding the substrate into solid mass

Overall construction method and time forecast:

Construction Time

3 month

2 month

Step 4 1 month 10 days for Moulds-Shoring Fixing per level (Including the load-bearing main structure and inner partitions

3 days for Material filling per level

author of all the drawigns and photographs on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

10 days for Material Growth (extended because of the scale) + Additional 7 days for drying and fire treat

when grown mold is taken off,

the mycelium cells can be assembled together to grow into yourselt to create solid structure

Cellular Mycelium Assembling grown Cells

Salt flakes

Salt Crystals

Section AA

Fragmentation

Division

Section BB Spatial Arrangements

Salis Crystallo Abu Dhabi Wetland Park Visitor Centre Date: 2020 Location: London Supervisor: Self-driven - Competition entry with Kenny Tam The Salis Crystallo is a competition entry for a Visitor Centre in Abu Dhabi Wetland Park. The project aims to re-invent the facilities on site and create a tourist destination - a place where the public can admire and learn about astomishing landscape and its wildlife. The proejct is praising the iconic figure of flamingo, yet inconspicuous to the landscape and geology. My focus in this colaboration was on the concept design, modeling, visualisation and detailing. The concept brings attention to the natural inhavbitation environment of flamingos, hilighting the imporant presence of the salt and thatnks to that the red algaes, food for the flamingos. In an effort to enhance the experience of the visitors, the buildings carves a thematic journey by various tools allowing to educate and build the knowledge of its visitors within the building and expand it to live experience within the terrace looking towards the flocks of flying wildlife in close proximity. The forms of natural salt crystals is a generator for the building form, the shading system and the facade itself, manufactured from locally sourced timber. Together with the building materiality of the pigmented concrete they mimic the quality of the flamingos' environment in its explorative architecture. The limited surface exposure for heat gain by the submersion of the Ground Floor, the strategic rotation to limiting solar gain and the natural ventilation systems, allows the building to sustainablly resonate with the surrounding climate, not intruding natural inhabitants.

author of the images on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka auhor of plan drawings and axonometric: Kenny Tam

Canopy Panel

Roof Large opening with delicate shading system canopy attached to reinforced pigmented concrete with timber facade

First Floor A sloping observatory walkway weaving the Ground Level to the building exteriors and interiors.

Key: 1. Main entrance 2. Vehicle access 3. Car Park 4. Outdoor space 5. Observing space 6. Lobby/ Gift Shop / Waiting area 7. Multi-functional space 8. Cafe 9. Gallery 10. Open learning space 11. Office 12. Training area 13. Kitchen 14. Storage room 15. Plant room 16. Roof light

Second Floor / Ground Floor Programs sunk into the landscape to provide best internal micro-climate with optimal, natural fay ligth from all sides.

Ground Floor Plan

Lower Ground Floor Plan

Abu Dhabi Visitor Center The Abu Dhabi Visitor Centre welcomes you to visit the spectacular Al Wathba Wetland Reserve. You will not only see the wildlife up close especially the infamous flamingos, but also you will understand each animal deeply through the workshops, gallery information center we provide in the center. For a more relaxing visit a cafe, gift shops and a large shaded viewing platform is also available for the public to freely roam. Come visit us in the opening summer of 2025! 18

author of all the images on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Key 1

1.Main entrance 2.Vehicles access 3.Car Park 4.Outdoor space 5.Observing space 6.Lobby / gift shop / waiting area 7.Mult- functional space 8. Cafe 9.Gallery 10.Open learning space 11.Office 12.Training area 13.Kitchen 14.Storage area 15.Plant room

Roof Plan 19

DISSERTATION MYCOsella Growing the Mycelium Chair” “ Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Warsaw, Poland Date: Year 3, Final Year (2018/19) Studio: Biodesign Supervisor: Martyn Dade-Robertson (martyn.dade-robertson@newcastle.ac.uk) My dissertation titled - “MYCOsella - Growing the Mycelium Chair” was a research driven design project that was building upon my previous experience with mycelium. In the dissertation I took a closer look at the material itself, exploring its properties, capabilities and possible future application into a building industry. To make the research more tangible and test it in the one to one scale, I decided to research the material though the prism of the interior design, precisely through chair typologies. The project included material experiments using various substrates, testing growing techniques, exploring various forms and strategies in order to then successfully integrate all the research into the chair creation. The project resulted in the creation of three different chairs, successfully grown out of mycelium material, presenting its broad qualities as both structural material and aesthetic texture. Each of the chair was testing material possibilities gradually stretching its border. First starting with the metal support and base, then introducing natural - wooden base and finally, ending up with a chair entirely grown out of the mycelium substrate. With the successful results, all of the chairs are fully functional pieces of furniture. This project with its surprising and unique results, if taken into the industrial scale, might have a great impact on changing the way we perceive the production, design and architecture itself with the exciting concept of naturally grown furniture and in the nearest future grown architecture.

Manufacturing mycelium growth processes

author of all the photographs on the pages: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Link to the full Dissertation: https://issuu.com/nataliapiorecka/docs/dissertation_project_ba_architectur Video presenting the Process of the Growing Assemblage of the Chairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxDcVbZav84

MYCOform & MYCOlux Lamp Mycelium Product Design Date: 2020/21 Location: London Supervisor: Self-Driven design project Mycelium as a vegetative network of mushroom roots could unite the natural substrate such as wood-chips, straw or any other agricultural waste into a rigid, strong material by acting as a natural glue. With its material properties it could be grown into any form that once dried becomes a solid, well insulated and water resistant structure. The MYCOform project was one of the initial mycelium experiemnts looking at mycelium substrate as a casting material though a simple design froms. Following the series of mycelium projects the MYCOlux Lamp makes a step towards viable industry product design. It continues MYCOsella's approach to make a change of how we create out everyday use objects. Maintaining its defined form, resuing the base formwork we could grow multiple copies of the final product, where due to natural growth each would be unique object with a strong and individual identity, imperfectly shaped by the unexpetancies of the growth. Mycelium as a material could change how consumers perceive products. They could grow them themselves using prepared kit. Such an activity could help the customers to realize that the products doesn’t need to be everlasting and they could still fulfill their function. Once it has been used or abandoned, mycelium chair, bowl or lampshade could be easily disposed in gardens, forests, any natural environment where it could positively contribute to the ecological surrounding blending back to the natural environment. By introducing that concpets to the industrial scale the mycelium material could truly contribute towards reduction of waste and energy usage.

author of all the photographs on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Oss

Mycm Bird House

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Date: Year 3, Final Year (2018/19), Academic Location: Durham Wetlands, Rainton Meadow Studio: Experimental Architecture Supervisor: Rachel Armstrong (rachel.armstrong3@newcastle.ac.uk) The MYCO-Moss Bird House is a design which responds not only to the needs of the birds, but it is also respectfully enriching the surrounding ecology. Prioritising this approach the design of MYCOmoss Bird House is a fully biodegradable bird house entirely grown out of mycelium substrate. The concept for the design is highly benefiting from the advantages of mycelium material properties of well insulated and water resistant structure, providing a safe shelter for the birds. Its egg-like form is driven by various factors such as: efficiency of the structure, water drainage, manufacture process, flexibility and the ease of scalability. Depending on the size of the bird, the interior space would need to be scaled according to the size a particular bird requires for the inhabitation. Over the structure of grown mycelium, the MYCOmoss design incorporates a layer of moss ingrown within the surface of the mycelium. The moss feature provides additional soft material for the birds creating their nests inside the Bird House. Throughout the growth the surface of the mycelium material becomes overgrown with white tissues of the mycelium, therefore the moss would provide an extra camouflage for the bird house, making it less exposed for the potential predators. Moreover, the continuous growth of the moss would contribute towards the bird house life cycle. It doesn not require any maintanance as it would eventually naturally age, biodegrade and blend back to the nature, turning the entire mycelium structure into a moss garden leaving no waste behind.

y x * y *z = 4/3πr3 r = 3 (3xyz/4π)

MATERIALS REQUITED: METAL MESH CLING FOIL BALLOON STRAW PLUG

+ MOSS MYCELIUM MATERIAL

MYCELIUM SUBSTRATE:

MYCELIUM

SUBSTRATE AGRICULTURAL

(WOODCHIPS, STRAW)

MATERIAL QUALITIES:

MYCELIUM MATAERIAL

PLAN SCALE 1:5

SECTION A SCALE 1:5

SECTION B SCALE 1:5

ELEVATION & DESIGN STRATEGY SCALE 1:5

MANUFACTURE PROCESS: 1.

APPLY CLING FOIL ON THE METAL MESH AND STERILIZE THE CLING FOIL

EVENLY DISTRIBUTE THE PREPARED MYCELIUM MATERIAL OVER THE SURFACE OF THE CLING FOIL MYCELIUM SUBSTRATE COULD BE PRODUCED BY YOURSELF OR PURCHASED FROM MULTIPLE SUPPLIERS

CALCULATE THE VOLUME REQUIRED BY THE BIRD FOR ITS INHABITATION AND APPLY THE FIGURES INTO THE APPROXIMATE SIZE OF THE BALLOON APPLY IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MATERIAL

START CAREFULLY WRAPPING THE METAL MESH, MAKING SURE THE LOOSE MYCELIUM MATERIAL IS NOT FALLING APART NOTE: THIS STEP REQUIRES EXTRA ATTENTION! BE CAREFUL TO NOT POP THE BALLOON AND CONTAMINATE YOUR MATERIAL, OTHERWISE THE GROWTH WILL FAIL

CONTINUE TO WRAP THE FORM INTO COCOON, EGG-LIKE SHAPE, HOLD THE FORM AND ADD THE CORK ( FOR THE ENTRANCE HOLE) AND A STRAW ( FOR THE DRAINAGE HOLE) NOTE: REMEMBER TO PICK THE OBJECTS CORK IN THE CORRECT DIMENSIONS OF THE ENTRANCE FOR THE BIRD, TO PREVENT ANY PREDATORS ACCESSING THE BIRD HOUSE

6. TWIST THE ENDS OF THE METAL MESH TO CLOSE THE FORM, YOU CAN CAREFULLY ADJUST THE SHAPE INTO THE DESIRED FORM

LET IT GROW!

AFTER MYCELIUM IS GROWN, CAREFULLY REMOVE THE GROWN BIRD HOUSE FROM THE FORM, POP THE BALLOON INSIDE AND REMOVE IT WITH ANY ADDITIONAL TOOL, WITHOUT DAMAGING THE STRUCTURE. APPLY THE MOSS, WRAP IT IN THE CLING FOIL AND LET IT INGROW FOR A WHILE. TAKE YOUR BIRD BOX TO ITS CHOSEN LOCATION AND LET IT GROW IN THE ENVIRONMENT TO WELCOME ITS NEW INHABITANTS!

Functional Diagram

NEW MATERIAL

NEW SYSTEM

EGGS AND MILK

MARTIAN GAS

FISH

FRUIT

RESEARCH LAB

AQUAPONICS

FILTER

EXCAVATE

REUSED ICE

SUN

MARTIAN SAND AND ROCK

STRUCTURAL MATERIAL

LIGHT

BEDROOM

LIVING

SOLAR CELLS

KITCHEN

DOME STRUCTURE

CO2 FARM ANIMALS

AREOPONICS

TOILET

H2O

BREATHABLE AIR

PLASTIC SHEETS

CHEMICAL REACTOR

ROCKET

Site

Site Location - Mars

H2 WHEAT

VEGETABLE HUMAN WASTE/ ELECTROLOSIS FERTILISER

Plans

Expansion concept - creating colony

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Launch pad

Outer layer membrane radiatin proof Research Lab

Sol to Sol Red Planet Inhabitation Central the ground surface where a thick Pool layer of frozen oceans can be found. The massive drill in the core of the scheme crushes the ice and pushes it up by the nature of the spiral (vortex like) form. The ice “Sol to Sol” is a two person collaborative entry for the Marsception melts as it rises closer to the surface passing a filtering systems and competition. I was responsible for the main design concept and becoming an potable water, pumped further to all systems around strategy, together with the 3D modeling and visuals. scheme. The design envisions a habitat for the first five colonizers on the Red The proposal introduces a gas recycling system, using electrolysis Planet who would research the viability of life for the future human to deal with the vast amount of CO2, manufacturing and subdividing generations on Mars. As a reply to specific condition in Mars, the the H2O to the breathable Oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2). The H2 site is positioned above the equator and below 25 degrees, to would be pumped into the triangular, structural pillows and provide make use of the flat land and the frozen water resources underneath a layer of protection from the harmful radiation. The tanks of water the surface and due to its modularity it could be hold the ability for covering the first level would additionally protect the levels below the future expansion and development. The proposal aims to solve and act as a system for aquaponics and aeroponics farming. the biggest problem of lacking water. Digging deep down through

Date: 2018 Location: Planet Mars Supervisor: Self-driven, Competition entry with Kenny Tam

Farming quaters

Ice excavation Core Drill

Section of the main Inhabitation and Core Drill

Internal visualisations of the Inhabitation

Dome structure and radiation protection layer 2727

author of all the model and visualizations on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka author of the plans : Kenny Tam

Pedestrian Campus Boulevard

St. George Hospital Masterplan Redesigning healthcare service Date: 2020 Location: Stafford, UK Company: Medical Architecture Supervisor: Christopher Shaw (christopher@medicalarchitecture.com) The St. Georges is a professional proposal for the redevelopment of St George’s Hospital based in Stafford. It was my first project as Part 1 Architectural Assistant in the Medical Architecture in London and it allowed me to familiarise myself with various RIBA stages of works, starting with the initial Stage 1, which well taken by the client lead to Stage 2. The main objective of this study was to develop a site Masterplan for St George’s Hospital that would replace the outdated mental health facilities. It aimed to provide new estates infrastructure, replacing current clinical, administrative and support accommodation, making the best use of the existing site with a scope of growth and change in the future. The Masterplan involved five development phases, through which the project would deliver new facilities of Forensic Mental Health, Adult Acute and Eating Disorders Inpatient Wards. It was also providing new accessible and adaptable outpatient accommodation together with new high quality offices and Trust Headquarters. The project aimed to deliver a modern and attractive integrated site campus with features to recruit and retain the best NHS workforce and at the same time utilise the best strategy to plan phases, logistics and conduct construction without significant obstruction for current hospital operations.

Localisation

Stacking Diagrams of the new development Site Masterplan

HEALTHCARE DEPRARTMENTS: Outpatient Older Adult Acute Assesment Dementia Eating Disorders Mother & Baby Ward Shared activities Office Forensic Ward Secure Green Gardens Access to Secure Gardens

Aearial View of the Masterplan Development

Shared Activities and Forenisc Wrda -Public Front

Outpatients - Public Access

Office author of all the drawings on the pages: Natalia Beata Piórecka

ASCENSION ISLAND

GEORGETOWN

SITE

Location Plan - Ascension Island, Georgetown

Ascension Island Hospital at the end of the world Date: 2020 Location: Ascension Island, Overseas Territory of St Helena UK Company: Medical Architecture Supervisor: Bob Wills The Ascension Island Government (AIG) commissioned Medical Architecture supported by RPS Engineering consultants and Currie & Brown cost consultants to provide a feasibility study describing a costed proposal for the design and installation of a new hospital at Georgetown, Ascension Island. The current hospital at Georgetown is deemed to be unfit for purpose, therefore a replacement of the existing hospital and dental service together is necessary. Under an eye of the architect I developed an initial design concept as the RIBA Stage 2, responding to the client’s brief, health planning requirements and the tropical, maritime conditions of the island. The preferred L-shaped layout allowed for improved operational functionality and combined the agreed assumptions made in order to arrive at a reasonably accurate expectation of likely costs to procure such a facility. Due to the problem with electricity on island and its specific hot climate as part of the scheme we proposed the solar-thermal arrays located on the wide shading light steel framed colonnade around the building. It would support the electrical supply and heated water for the building as well as providing a rain-shield when accessing and circulating around the building.

The intention for this project was to pre-fabricate as much of the construction as possible, with as many standardized components as possible, sized to suit easy storage and easy transfer from ship to barge/lighter to quayside at Georgetown. For the successful construction, the process required optimized chartered shipping packages and as much of ‘ready-to-go’ like design out of site to reduce man-hours required on-island during the erection and finishing works stages. The Cost Estimate was derived from UK rates for such a building, but with advice from Galliford Try and TopHousing-SE to assume enhanced rates of roughly twice those in the UK. In the cost of the design delivery there were considered all the design isuues of logistics, prefabrication and assembly. Taking out the abnormal costs for demurrage etc. an anticipated rate per m2 of between £8,500£9,000 per m2 have been assumed.

Roof Structure Strategy and Material

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It was a unique project that set a number of challenges related to its remote location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Me and my team needed to get outside of the comfort zone and using our professional expertise, adjust to the needs and environment of that scheme in order to use all the site potential and deliver best value proposition for the AIG.

Wall modules and construction elements

Eterior Visualisations

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Corridor 9 61.8 m²

Isolation Lobby 8.5 m²

In-Patient Area

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Accessible WC 11.2 m²

Main Entrance

Theatre

Cleaners 11.6 m²

Staff WC/Shower 11.6 m²

Corridor 7 16.6 m²

WC 1 Dental Waiting Area 4.5 m² 12.3 m²

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Plant 1 23.8 m²

Office 3 17 m²

Equipment Store 17 m²

Plant 2 29.4 m²

Storage 53 m²

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Clean Utility 15 m²

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Decon. Clean Instruments 10.8 m²

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Kitchen 14.1 m²

IT Room 9.1 m²

Near Patient Testing 17.7 m²

Patient bed exit parking bay 7.5 m²

Mobile Machine Storage 5.2 m²

Office 2 17 m²

Office 1 17 m²

Office 3 17 m²

Equipment Store 17 m²

Plant 2 29.4 m²

Storage 53 m²

Dirty Utility 13.2 m²

Clean Utility 15 m²

Autoclave (Sterilising) 30.8 m²

Cylinder Storage 4 m²

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Corridor 5 57.1 m²

Corridor 4 32.1 m²

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L-shaped Plan

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Autoclave (Sterilising) 30.8 m²

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Dirty Utility 13.2 m²

Cylinder Storage 4 m²

Corridor 5 57.1 m²

Corridor 4 32.1 m²

Structural Strategy

Office 2 17 m²

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Patient bed exit parking bay 7.5 m² Mobile Machine Storage 5.2 m²

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Corridor 6 121.3 m²

Multipurpose Room 23.1 m²

Corridor 6 121.3 m²

Outpatients Outpatients Pharmacy G Pharmacy Plant Plant Plant H Plant Public Area Public Area Public Area Public Area Public Area Resus/A&E area I Resus/A&E area 4800 Theatre Theatre 13 Theatre Theatre Theatre Gross Internal Floor Area 3600

C2 5 m²

Operating Theatre 49 m² Kitchen 14.1 m²

IT Room 9.1 m²

Utility 5.4 m²

Corridor 2 23.4 m²

Decon. Dirty Instruments 10.8 m²

X-Ray 21 m²

Corridor 6 121.3 m²

Near Patient Testing 17.7 m²

X-Ray 21 m² Operating Theatre 49 m²

Dental Treatment Room 26.1 m²

Multipurpose Room 23.1 m²

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Dispensing Area 8.5 m²

Exterior Decontam/ PM Room 23.8 m²

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Dispensing Area 8.5 m²

Resus 34.9 m²

MH 'cooling down' Room 6.8 m² Quiet Staff Room 13 m²

Pharmacy 43.6 m²

Consultation Room 1 17 m²

Nurse Consultation Room (& Treatment) 17 m²

Consultation Room 1 17 m²

Resus 34.9 m²

MH 'cooling down' Room 6.8 m² Quiet Staff Room 13 m²

Pharmacy 43.6 m²

Consultation Room 2 17 m²

Physiotherapy 35 m²

Corridor 6 121.3 m²

F Consultation Room 2 17 m²

Dental Laboratory 17 m²

Emergency Entrance

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Dental Office 11.6 m²

Nurse Consultation Room (& Treatment) 17 m²

Emergency Entrance

Emergency Lobby 15.7 m²

Nurse Station/Admin/ Secretary Room 21.3 m²

Staff Locker 4.3 m²

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Staff WC/Shower 11.6 m²

Corridor 7 16.6 m²

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Waiting Area 22.1 m²

Disposal Hold 5.8 m²

Nurse Station/Office Nurse Station/Office Nurse Station/Office E Nurse Station/Office Nurse Station/Office Nurse Station/Office Outpatients Outpatients Outpatients Outpatients F Outpatients Outpatients Exterior Decontam/ PM Room Outpatients 23.8 m²

Disposal Hold 5.8 m²

Emergency Lobby 15.7 m²

Nurse Station/Admin/ Secretary Room 21.3 m²

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Sluice (Dirty Utility) 11.6 m²

Lobby 8.7 m²

Main Entrance

Cleaners 11.6 m²

Waiting Area 22.1 m²

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Showers & WC 2 11.6 m²

Sluice (Dirty Utility) 11.6 m²

Lobby 8.7 m²

Resus/A&E area

Showers & WC 1 11.2 m²

Plant

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In-Patient Area In-Patient Area In-Patient Area In-Patient Area In-Patient Area In-Patient AreaD In-Patient Area In-Patient Area Nurse Station/Office

4-Bed Bay 2 49 m²

Outpatients

Accessible WC 11.2 m²

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4-Bed Bay 1 49 m²

Nurse Station/Office

Public Area E

Isolation Lobby 8.5 m²

4-Bed Bay 2 49 m²

Corridor 9 61.8 m²

Imaging

Pharmacy

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4-Bed Bay 1 49 m²

Delivery Suite/ Women & Child Heath Suite 22.5 m²

Dental Cluster

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Isolation Room 30.1 m²

Delivery Suite/ Women & Child Heath Suite 22.5 m²

Isolation Room 30.1 m²

Circulation

Isolation Ensuite 8.5 m²

Smear Room 12.2 m²

Delivery Ensuite 12.2 m²

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Delivery Ensuite 12.2 m²

Plant 3 23.8 m²

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UP Plant 3 23.8 m²

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PROJECT

AIG Hospital Feasibility Study

DRAWING TITLE

Plan 1_250

PROJECT NUMBER

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author of all the drawings on the pages: Natalia Beata Piórecka

SUIT

Emerging Urban Creature Redesigning healthcare service Date: 2020 Location: Stafford, UK Company: rat[LAB] Supervisor: Sushant Verma (sushant.verma@rat-lab.org) The project was an workshop exploration, where speculative approach to architecture was undertaken. It was result of discussions along the studio throughout the Digital Futures 2020 workshops. Cities today are consuming two-thirds of world’s resources and for the next 30 years it’s been anticipated that two-thirds of world population will live in cities. In order to accommodate this growth in a sustainable manner, the smart city has thus been hailed as a solution to the many problems suffered by existing cities, such as crippling traffic congestion, hazardous air pollution and burgeoning waste. The concept of multi-functional spaces in urban planning has gained more considerations due to “functional-segregation” of modern urbanism and the tendency towards more sustainable cities. Architects and designers have made different interpretations of functionality, not only

considering activities but also taking into account symbolism, human emotions, spirituality of space and ecological functions. Architects and designers have always had a tendency to enhance cognitive spatial experiences of urban environments using multi-functional spaces; but the future city needs more than just the cognitive experiences of users. It needs emergence, the scientific mode in which natural systems can be explored and explained in a contemporary context. Emergence provides models and processes for the creation of artificial systems that are designed to produce forms and complex behavior and perhaps even real intelligence. One that could perhaps define new levels of interactions and integrations within natural ecosystems. We believe the future utopia is shaped today and to shape it, our proposal rises from the notion of emergent forms. We designed a form where it comes to merge with the urban and natural context to create an architectural enquiry for future design. The initial form is created and visualized in Rhinoceros and it is fed to Kangaroo to create the final tensile looking form, finally Weaverbird is used to control the mesh and extract a simple structure.

author of all the images on the pages: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Modules used for the generation

Final Form

Discrete Reclamation Modular Construction Date: 2020 Location: London, UK Company: .futurly Supervisor: Arek Keshishian (arek.keshishian@gmail.com) This project is an architectural exploration of spatial assembly. It looks at the future problem of land limits though the prism of the modular construction. It is an attempt to re-imagine the current way of thinking of a building as a self-standing, individual object into a complex, interdependent, growing structure of multiplied forms. With the use of the Grasshopper code developed as an exploration of discrete aggregations, the design uses a set of simple, discrete modules and turns them into intersected structures made of repetition of a finite amount of parts. By the use of generative design we can keep the modules relatively simple and use those components for a three dimensional assembly creating diverse spatial arrangements of accommodations, various aesthetics and spatial qualities, which could be created by a process of the randomized aggregation or a constrained one that would for instance fill a specific volume. The use of the generative design approach allows to explore the concept such as vertical cities with the focus on vertical growth. It raise the questions of how people could behave and

author of all the images on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Generated variants live is that environments. It investigates the potential direction of future architectural developments, incorporating the use of computation. The idea of simple modular elements being assembled into more complex structures might have various advantages. It could be standardized, which could be an opportunity for future reuse of construction materials. It could also allow to incorporate concepts such as a vertical farming and sky gardens in its reinvested infrastructure. The computational optimization could allow to assembly the modules in such a way so it provides appropriate quality of natural light for all parts of the structure therefore maintaining the quality of inhabitation. It also gives many possibilities, the more parts we incorporate, the more variations could be created. The assembly itself, by the use of the script the process could be well optimized and parametrized according to the requirements. Despite the fact of how challenging similar assembly translated into the real life construction may be now, I believe the upcoming technology and innovation, would sooner or later blur this line and give us various opportunities towards the development of similar concepts.

Perspective Views on the Generative Speculation

author of all the images on the page: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Fluidity Seamless architecture Date: 2020 Location: London, UK Company: .futurly, Zaha Hadid Architects Supervisor: Mariana Cabugueira This project was looking at the conceptual design of a fluid forms. By a free form modeling I was looking at spatial richness though the formal complexity of the form. The modeling was aiming to examine the transition between the building and a land, which sometimes seems to be neglected within architectural design. I looked at the urban strategy where the border line of the emerging building is becoming blurry, where the building starts a conversation with the landscape and eventually becomes part of it, rather than being a distinct objects assembled within other ‘self-standing buildings’. During that project in conversation with an architect from Zaha Hadid Architects, I worked with Maya as a modeling tool to explore the complexity the so called fluid architecture. Not only fluid in its architectural shape, but also in its relation with the ground and the surrounding. Though the conceptual project tower, I was working on improving my own understanding of spatial arrangement and landscape design, working with the conceptual ‘fluid’ forms, yet rational enough for the current technological possibilities. I also developed several skills towards model sketching using Maya, which greatly improve my current work flow and the understanding of the project stages from concept to realization, using various software - starting with Maya, getting refined in Rhino and realized in Revit. That experience was extremely useful and allowed me to understand how beneficial it is to think about project’s realization and technical strategies from its early stages. By doing so the project has its potential to keep as its best qualities from its initial design. Front Perspective View of the Tower

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author of all the images on the pages: Natalia Beata Piórecka

Speculation on Architectural Fluidity - Tower

Fluidity of the Landscape and the builiding form

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Architecture,

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