Portfolio

Portfolio

Oliwia Tatara 2018 - 2022

CONTENTS

PROFESSIONAL WORK

I P. 10-15

SANTIAGOSTRAAT SCHOOL COMPLEX

LUCHTBAL - STEDELIJK CLUSTER SANTIAGOSTRAAT

Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten BV

II P. 16-19

SPORTSITE - GROTE LAAKWEG

A LARGE SPORTS AND RECREATION AREA

Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten BV

STUDENT WORK

III P. 20-55 GRADUATION PROJECT GLEANING MAASTRICHT

HOUSING & COMMUNITY THEATRE IN THE OLD PAPER FACTORY

IV P. 56-63 MSC PROJECT SALON

A ROOM FOR SOCIAL GATHERINGS

V P. 54-69 BSC PROJECT A TWIN HOUSE

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION

Oliwia Tatara

architect Rotterdam, Nl

+31 (0) 6 10 23 58 11

oliwia.tatara1@gmail.com

polish / native english / expert dutch / A1

TU Delft

Architecture (Ms) CUM LAUDE - 9

2020-2022

graduation project exhibited during Rotterdam Architecture Biennale as part of Future Generations, IABR, it’s about time, 2022 https://iabr.nl/en/contributions/future-generation

University of Fine Arts in Poznań Architecture (BA) 2015 - 2019

University of Fine Arts in Poznań Industrial Design (BA) 2013 - 2016

EXPERIENCE

Korteknie Stuhlmacher Architecten, Rotterdam (Nl)

1,5 years October 2022 - March 2024 (full time)

• educational and cultural buildings • adaptive reuse

• revitalizing old structures • sustainability

Project list:

/ Aarschot (DO) - Sports Complex, Belgium (Aarschot)

/ Lebau (DO) - housing, retail, Belgium (Brussels)

/ Citygate (DO/Bestek) - 400 apartments, workshops; school complex, offices, Belgium (Brussels) https://ksa.nl/en/projects/ citygate-a-l%C3%AEle

/ Luchtbal (invited competition) Stedelijke cluster

Santiagostraat - a school complex with a kindergarten and a sports hall - 2nd place, Belgium (Antwerp)

Urban Climate Architects, Delft (NL)

6 months April 2021- October 2021 (part-time) side job during 1st year of Master studies

Atelier Starzak Strebicki, Poznań (PL)

7 months Nobermber 2019 -May 2020 (full time)

7 months Nobermber 2018 -May 2019 (internship)

• Residential, cultural, and public building design

• urban planning •furniture design • temporary interventions for cultural events

Project list:

/ Refurbishment of an interior of Animation Theatre, https://www.starzakstrebicki.eu/en/project/the-animation-theatre/

/ Temporary public space for MALTA Festival,

/ Refurbishment of the Architecture Department in City Hall

https://www.starzakstrebicki.eu/en/project/architecture-and-urbanplanning-department/

/ Closed competition, the masterplan for Heverlee, Belgium

/ House with tailoring and sail repair workshop

https://www.starzakstrebicki.eu/en/project/house-with-workshophanawind/

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Monka concept, Toruń (PL)

June 2019- September 2021 (part-time)

• concept and buisness development • project managment in horeca and hospitality https://www.designboom.com/architecture/znamy-sie-monkaapartments-poland-07-13-2019/

MEDS - meeting of design students

July/August 2018/19 (summer volounteering) Greece, Lebanon

• design and coordination • project management

https://www.archdaily.com/932624/meds-workshop-generates-14projects-on-the-island-of-spetses-in-greece

SOFTWARE

Archicad, Vectorworks, Adobe (Ps, Ai, Id), Sketchup, Twinmotion

Adobe Premiere, Enscape Autocad, 3ds max, SolidWorks

prof.ir. Paul Vermeulen, graduation first mentor, contact details - paulvermeulen@hdspv.be

Atelier Starzak Strebicki

10-11/2022

Korteknie Stuhlmacher

STADELIJK CLUSTER SANTIAGOSTRAAT

Invited “mini” competition, 2nd place Santiagostraat 2, Antwerpen, Belgium

primary school, sport infrastructure with the existing sports hall and a youth center

team: Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Rien Korteknie, Ewout de Bleser, Oliwia Tatara, Jana Scheithauer

EXISTING SPORTHALL

Invited “mini” competition for a primary school, sport infrastructure with the existing sports hall and a youth center in Luchtbal, Atnwerpen. The main idea of the project was to provide design answering archetypical vs specific qualities of the place that matches the possibilities and traditions of Luchtbal. As a team we decided to propose a bold, efficient, grand and sculptural building that is in keeping with the modernist orthogonality of the site, and the scale and size of its surroundings. The proposal consists of the simple stacking of various functions in the constructively and functionally most logical way. With its stepped design and greenery on different levels, the building acts as a noise buffer that protects the area behind it from traffic noise.

4 entrance with bicycle storage and canopy seen from Noorderlaan

Future-proof hybrid of wood and concrete, prefabrication, fast construction time, flexibility and future adaptability, durable, warm and high-quality interior. For the structure, we distinguish between robust slabs in concrete with large spans consisting of beams and columns - The intermediate slabs floors will be constructed in wood (1st and 3rd floors). In the future, the wooden floors can be adapted or (partially) removed, creating various possibilities for other types of programs, such as sports rooms or workspaces for various purposes.

Spe elplaats

Spor tlokaal Spor thal

T V Spor t

The intermediate floors in the gymnasium are suspended from the roof beams. This eliminates the need for continuous columns. The primary school makes use of the depth of the gymnasium through sun and noise protection conservatories and balconies. The kindergarten is organised around an outdoor courtyard.

The cross-section shows the proportion of different playgrounds on the roofs. They are directly accessible from the classrooms. The refectory, for both kindergarten and primary school, is conceived as a two-storey floor with a large void and grandstand staircase. On the ground floor, the preschoolers eat under a wooden ceiling. The rooms for the older children on the first floor have a somewhat tougher character.

Jeugd Ref ter

T V Spor t

Jeugd aats

Persone el Lagere School Turnzaal Kleuters Tuin

Spe elplaats

T V Spor t

Jeugd

Turnzaal Ref ter

Spe elplaats

Spe elplaats

Lagere School

Lagere School Turnzaal

Spor t-

Kindergarten and primary school: different worlds

The ground-floor kindergarten has the character of an introverted patio villa with classrooms surrounding a central courtyard. The rooms for the primary school are located next to and above the kindergarten. They have a more extrovert character with unobstructed views in all directions and conservatories and balconies along the higher facades.

fragment class cluster kindergarten (left)

1 classroom with front garden,

2 multi-purpose room shared by all pupils

3 inner garden

fragment class cluster primary school (right)

1 classroom with outdoor space

2 ‘learning street’ shared by four classrooms 3 cloakrooms

SPORTSITE - GROTE LAAKWEG

a large sports and recreation area with a new sports hall (DO)

Belgium (Aarschot)

team: Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Rien Korteknie, Ewout de Bleser, Veronika Arutiunian, Teun van Dillen Oliwia Tatara

GROTE LAAKWEG is a design of a sports hall for the town of Aarschot for the local sports club and for the use of the school, which will be built in the next phase. I joined the project after the office received building permission. I was involved in the research and selection of materials, both for the interior and exterior (developing images, asking for material samples, understanding technical requirements). Next to it I worked on documentation for the initial quotation to the contractors. I was also responsible for the detailed design of the staircases and steelwork (DO). The choice of materials had to meet several requirements. The client provided a guidebook that described the guidelines for highly sensitive children, which included surface types and color combinations. Another challenge was that we had to deliver a vandal-proof design that occurs during club matches.

3,4,5 - images developed in Twinmotion.

6 exterior staircase fragment The main structural and infill element in the design is the concrete block. Prefabricated staircases are made with a plinth. We developed the dimensions of the steps in a way that they correspond to the diagonal of the concrete block.

- beton D03

Traptreden - beton D04

- beton D02

Noppenmarkering D08

Traptreden - betonsteen D06

Traptreden - beton D01

GLEA NING MAASTRICHT

Community theatre and a housing project in the former paper factory

graduation project

tutors

Prof. Paul Vermeulen

Drs. Leeke Reinders

Juliane Greb

Research/process book https://issuu.com/oliwiatatara/docs/ gleaning_maastricht_process_book

The location of the project site is the Sphinxkwartier in Maastricht, currently occupied by the Sappi, paper factory. The former industrial estate is located right next to the city’s center. The district underwent many changes, but the factory remains a leftover piece that opens up many questions. The body of the factory as we see it today is a layering of additions and extensions. As paper production is slowly fading out, so is the city of Maastricht showing interest in the factory terrains. The theme of gleaning derives from collecting second crops or other produce left by the reaper, picking and gathering pieces left in the fields. For the need of the project, term is appropriated as a tool for approaching the given context.

In the first phase of the project gleaning is conducted on a city scale, resulting in several discoveries about the third places and their specifics. If the first place is our home, second is our work, third place is environment that we exist in between these two. Although the theater wasn’t the target, it turned out that the theaters were an essential element of the network of third places in Maastricht. Almost like the beer gardens in London or cafeterias in Paris, theaters constituted a critical element of informal public places in Maastricht. Maastricht’s theatrical history has long been more the history of the theater building than of the drama itself.

Jesuit church before transformation,1879, Maastricht

Bonbonnière, community theater, addition of new stage tower,1955, Maastricht

Maas city square

Sappi factory

STICHING THE CITY - MASTERPLAN The first step into design is group work on the master plan for the factory, an intake on stitching the industrial puzzle under transition with the tissue of the city. As a group we discover that the factory area has many ties to the city’s topographical, memorial, social, and historical layers of the city. One of our main findings is that the factory used to close a large green ring around the city center. One of the main aims of the plan is to close off this ring again, forming a large park with its industrial reminiscences. The decision is also to reuse the old railway bridge as a pedestrian/cyclist crossing from the park to the right bank of the river.

PAPERMILLS The factory expanded towards the north with the addition of the papermill machines. That determined the shapes of the longitudinal buildings of the factory. Ind design, papermills became principal axes for designing the southern part of the factory. In the north, the papermill six is left as a trace creating a strip for sports activities. The plan also aims to reuse the existing infrastructure within the factory (Franssensingel alley).

FOLIES Industrial folies should inform us about the past. In our design, they become place makers, articulations of the public spaces around the site.

4 Sappi factory, 1961, RHCL Maastricht 5 factory buildings, jumble of roofscapes

papermill 5

6

papermill 2

papermill 1

papermill

MICROURBANISM The choice of the area for individual work was determined by the desire to develop the urban planning on a smaller scale. Although the final product developed in detail is a community theater, I decided to create my work on a smaller urban scale to understand better what the site offers and what opportunities it can create for a growing housing estate. The choice was to work between papermill two and the big boxes in the north, that are converted into housing. The task was to react to the in-between situation and create a particular setup to help build social potential. The new design should be an enzyme that initiates the formulation of a new housing estate for the entire urban block to come together.

The strip consists of eight buildings that, with time, were connected for optimization of the paper production process, creating an almost endless ground floor plan. It was important to me to understand where these leftovers came from and how they were put together. The idea was to always intervene into the fabric of the maze and cherish it, maximizing the intermingling of open/closed spaces, cover/shelter, sun/shade. The ambiguity of the roofscapes leads us through spaces that, from time to time, will surprise us with something non-obvious that will attract our attention. The project is about encounters with people, memories, and interlocking moments, where the borders between private and public are blurred.

individual design

southern, the oldest part of the factory

Nathan Silver, Dining Chair, 1968

northern site of the factory “big boxes” office buildings

papermill 5 the sheds warehouse

papermill 2

pulp production building

elevatedstreet

street(papermillfive)

passage(papermilltwo)

Maas

15 view on the main square, articulation of existing silo as a space maker

THE WAREHOUSE

The project story is represented in a sequence of perspectives showing the existing and the new intervention.

The new foodcourt takes place in the warehouse where the paper is currently stored. The existing skylights in the roof provides a lot of beautiful natural sunlight. The building faces the waterfront, which gives an opportunity for the program to be more profit-oriented.

The intervention was ment to be minimal, preventing the structure from undergoing significant changes. By simply opening two bays of the roof on the axises of the papermills we arrive to a layout which can be easily furnished with foodtrucks and temporary setups for a lively foodhall. The passage through the building meets the social staircase that takes us onto the elevated street.

THE SHEDS

The interventions into the existing are always made based on the principle of minimal change and maximum effect. Imagining new scenarios for the presented spaces considers flexibility of use. That is why the transformations are made in a way that spaces can be used by inhabitants in many different ways, in case our initial ideas fail (ex. summer theater or outdoor gym).

The sheds formerly used to store paper are converted to host the new housing and the summer theatre. The roof is partially removed to allow more light to enter the small garden between the apartments and the summer theater. Apartments on the first floor from the north gain additional space on an elevated street. From the south, they are extended by a gallery, an extension of the living space. From the second floor, the apartments become duplexes. For the smaller shed, the decision was to replace the roof and create a foldable division wall between the garden, allowing various space adaptations.

From the first floor the housing In the shed and housing in the new addition share one gallery, in that way the communication is organized by three staircases with a shared elevator. Next to the sheds, there is a new addition, an apartment building overlooking the Maas River. The main idea was to connect the eastern gallery with the housing offered in the sheds.

axonometry, explanation of the housing proposal with shared galleries and the small garden

model pictures

ELEVATED STREET

The project continues on the elevated street located in one of the former papermills. The quality of the paper mill five is that is built up of two massive slabs with a large void in between. That’s where the paper machine used to be operated from. In the existing situation (27), the interlocking moment of two buildings – papermill five and pulp building is reinvented as a terrace for the theater.

More to the east, where building connects with the sheds, the intervention is to reuse the brick wall as a street facade and to allow a garden to grow into the central void. The wall inbetween the sheds and the papermill becomes a combiner – the slab serve as an extension of the terraces in the housing located in the sheds (25).

COMMUNITY THEATER

Theaters in Maastricht were always aimed at entertainment and recreation, and fulfilled a more social than artistic function, more can be said about its social position than its artistic function. There was a pattern that buildings for which the city had no clear purpose were often claimed as more or less formal public spaces.

The focus of the architectural design was the community theater, a transformation of the former pulp building. The starting point was to assess the values of the existing, which in that case were open space, big spans, massive steel structure of the building as well as the silos that occupy the central space of the building. Silos stick out above the first floor, they were formerly used to produce paper pulp. The strategy was to empty and recover the existing structure.

31 model view, facade of the theater is inscribed in between two papermill buildings

SILOS AS VOIDS FOR THE THEATER

To intervene respectfully, the history of the theater is a history of silos, the spatial plans have been organized in a way that its presence can be experienced in every space of the building. (34) The new ensamble’s space offers a variety of spaces for the neighbourhood, such as a multipurpose room with changing rooms for both – actors on the first floor and participants of joga classes on the ground floor. As I was designing a space that was supposed to be remarkable but not grand, a large opening was introduced to open the ground floor. The opening, however, is a continuation of the round shapes of the silos. The space inside the theater remains rather low profile. The regulars hang our here in the afternoons occasionally getting involved in the artistic program of the performances taking place upstairs or in the courtyard.

The silos are treated as voids, taking the audience to the first floor of the theater. The new audience construction is built up in a wooden structure made of prefabricated CLT elements with a layer of sound insulation.

The audience is built of plywood. The construction principle is that the original appearance of the silos can still be restored in the future, the new intervention should be easily demountable. The new wooden construction is designed almost as a big furniture hidden under the existing roof. the space between the seats and the CLT structure has a space reserved for ventilation shafts.

I chose to to keep fragments of the brick façade, and in the technique of brickolaage, cherish the moments of where the new and existing comes together. For this reason, the building’s insulation is constructed on the inside of the building.

More attention was given to the knots where the new meets the old to emphasize their importance. In this case, it is a wooden bench, the back of which is designed as an acoustic panel to improve the sound conditions of the ground floor space (42).

The new facade is constructed as a curtain wall with wooden mullions. It becomes the main character presented in detailed drawing, creating an exciting transition between the wall’s remainings and the curtain wall’s new construction.

The main inspiration for the north façade was the existing opening with a large truss which becomes the window to the garden space. The two papermill buildings simply define the garden façade. The openings are designed so that the public in the theatre can always experience the garden (40).

new insulation on the exterior of the existing structure - roof on a trapezoidal sheet

waterproofing layer of roofing felt

waterproof barrier

exterior thermal insulation of cellular plastic and mineral wool 200 mm

free-bearing profiled sheet metal profiles h150 mm framework of existing steel profiles IPE 140

acoustic panel

veneered acoustic panel system with slot perforations 1200x600

canopy above the main entrance corrugated steel finishing cantilever canopy mounted on T-shape steel profile

curtain wall connection to the existing slab double glazing timber-alluminium curtain wall

wooden finishing (inside)

insulation 140mm

integtrated corrugated steel cladding

new floor on the existing slab

cement concrete finish

insulation 40 mm

existing reinforced concrete slab encased Industrial Beam

space reservation for air duct 180 mm

suspended ceiling on grid

existing single span frame HEB

wooden bench

perforated plywood

acoustic insulation 20mm

mdf

internal insulation of the existing brick

vapour membrane

stonewool insulation 120mm

vapour permable barier

air gap 30mm

existing brick wall flemish bond 215mm

new floor on the existing concrete slab

cement concrete finish

vapour control membrane

soft mineral insulation 100mm

vapour barrier

existing concrete slab 300mm

existing foundation plate

The collage of the façade is done with the combination of the existing brick wall, and the steel construction of the building. In effect, with the new ensamble it should be comprehendible, that firstly, the papermill five and the pulp building were formerly symbiotic unit forming one long façade. Secondly, that the pulp building is enclosed with a brick clamp of papermill two and papermill five. The same scheme was repeated in the plinth of the new ensamble.

D02

model pictures

SALON - A ROOM FOR SOCIAL GATHERINGS

Diepeveen, Bespolder - Tussendijken, Rotterdam

tutors

Sereh Mandias

Dirk Somers

The site of the project is located in Rotterdam, a neighborhood west of the city. It marks the boundary between the urban residential district of Bospolder Tussendijken and the inner-city port area of Nieuw Mathenesse, which is gradually being transformed into a residential area. The subject of the project is the Diepeveen building, an ensemble consisting of a monumental office building from 1929-30 and an industrial shed from 1914, which currently stands empty. The empty shed is the topic of the assigment. The design adopts the idea of the ‘Huidenclub’ as a community center and place for exchange, using the idea of a Salon as a point of departure. The project was developed on three scales.

The smallest is the interior of the Salon, a space that should be flexible in use and that is warm in winter and cool in summer so that people can use it all year round. Secondly, the interior of the uninsulated shed. And finally, the exterior of the building and its surroundingings.

Salon refers to the tradition of the large public room that receives and shapes the society of people that it gathers. Originally the Salon was both a cultural phenomenon and a specific space within the European aristocratic home during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were social gatherings in which participants engaged in the art of conversation, dedicated to exchanging ideas and pursuing knowledge. Salons were mostly initiated by women (salonnières) and offered a way for those without formal power to influence discourse. This project elaborates the relevance of such a notion in a contemporary setting.

Increasingly, the work of architects is not proposing new buildings but transforming, refurbishing, and reinterpreting existing structures with stress on the economy of means. The structure’s design creates a fabric of a modern Salon in response to an existing building and a specific community and site. The Salon becomes a space where private people gather to form a public, where 100 people gather comfortably but 10 people gather naturally. Salon’s design is divided between private and public, intimate and theatrical, in service to and open to all the members of the community.

The project’s biggest challenge was the room’s height, which was insufficient to create two levels, and leaving it in its current state resulted in an unpleasant interior environment. Therefore, the design proposes various elevations depending on the function and zone, creating spatial diversity. Another challenge was to decide on the climate zones depending on the scenarios that were to take place in the shed. Ultimately only the salon, its center, is a heated space all year round.

09/2016 - 12/2016

TWIN HOUSE FOR A FAMILY OF THREE

Smochowice, Poznań, Poland

tutors

Hugon Kowalski

prof. Andrzej Kurzawski

A house for three is a project of a semi-detached single-family house. The plot of 11m width 53m lenght is located in Smochowice, Poznań, Poland. The challenge of the assignment was to propose a new form that draws on the character of other buildings in the area, primarily semidetached houses, simultaneously without creating a tight barrier between the front of the house and the longitudinal garden. This is achieved by opening the ground floor through two large windows overlooking the garden right at the entrance. An important element of the project was to write a scenario for the family living in it and define their interests and desires.

The project was created for a family who wanted to grow vegetables and have small animals in the garden. The house is divided into two zones. First, adjacent to the neighboring building, which belongs to activities connected with daily routines. There is a child’s bedroom, a bathroom, a toilet, a dressing room, an office, a garage, and a day space. The second part of the house, a counter-form to the existing wall of the neighboring building, has a slant used for growing plants all year round. It has a void, double-height space with a kitchen and room to relax, and a mezzanine with the parents’ bedroom. The garden’s organization is derived from the interior layout. The cultivated garden, pergolas, and terrace are extensions of the kitchen.

Oliwia Tatara oliwia.tatara1@gmail..com