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Aleksandra Nowysz architecture / research / photography +48 889 526 775 ola.nowysz@gmail.com
Aleksandra Nowysz
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EDUCATION // 2012–2019
PhD of Architecture // TU Wrocław / Poland thesis title: Urban Farming Architecture
// since 2016 Bachelor of Photography // Opava Institute of Creative Photography / Czechia // 2010/2011
Master of Architecture // University of Beira Interior / Portugal LLP Erasums
// 2006–2011
Master of Architecture // TU Wrocław / Poland graduated cum laude
WORKSHOP / RESIDENCY >> IX–X 2016 Open Deign School Matera, Italy Cava del Sole – renewal of former quarry / ODS – developing an idea of experimental design school involving a local community >> 2015/2016 Sputnik Mentorship Programme, Poland creative photography workshop >> X 2015 FNP Skills, Poland Public Engagement for Scientists >> VIII/IX 2015 Transformation.doc, the Netherlands Wageningen University Putting big ideas into practice: developing soft skills for large system change >> X 2008 OSSA architectural workshop, Poland Squares in Cracow – public space design >> VII 2009 OSSA architectural workshop, Poland Urban renewal of former industrial area in Częstochowa
AWARDS (ARCHITECTURE)
EXPERIENCE >> 2012–2016 academic teacher: TU Wrocław, Faculty of Architecture / Poland / design of commercial and office architecture /
2016/17 MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP for academic & art achievements from Wrocław city mayor 2016
HONORABLE MENTION for academic achievements from TU Wrocław
>> 2011–2014 cooperation with architectural studio: Manufaktura No 1 / Poland / ellaboration of 5 competition projects /
2016 HONORABLE MENTION best presentation on PhD Students Conference in Wrocław >> V–X 2013 internship in: 2015 HONORABLE MENTION Menis Arquitectos / The Canary Islands for academic & art achievements from Wrocław City Mayor / project management / design / graphic / / presentations / 2014 HONORABLE MENTION for academic achievements from TU Wrocław >> 2011–2013 graphic freelancer 2013 1st AWARD – ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION / posters / logotypes / Bürchen Mystik – hotel complex, Switzerland, with Menis Arquitectos >> IV–IX 2012 junior architect in: Architectural & Graphic Atlier ToProjekt / Poland / design / graphic / presentations /
2012 MENTION – ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION Pomorska Island in Wrocław, Poland, with ToProjekt
GROUP SHOWS >> 2017–2018
Different Worlds 2017 Photon Gallery / Ljubljana, Slovenia Photon Gallery / Vienna, Austria
>> 2018 Reclaim Photography Festival Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery / UK Wolverhampton Art Gallery / UK >> 2017
Open Design School Milano Design Week 2017/ Italy
>> 2016
Open Design School Complesso del Casale / Matera, Italy
SOFTWARES Microstation AutoCad 3ds Max V-Ray Adobe Sketch-up
2012 3rd AWARD – ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION Jagielloński square in Radom, Poland, with Manufaktura Nr 1
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2012
HONORABLE MENTION best presentation on PhD Student Conference in Wrocław
2011 AWARD for 10 Best Graduates, Architecture Department TU Wrocław 2009
2nd AWARD – STUDENT COMPETITION Urban renewal of former industrial area in Częstochowa
AWARDS (PHOTOGRAPHY) 2017
1st AWARD Different Worlds 2017, Photon Gallery
2017
SHORTLISTED Felix Schoeller Photo Award
2017
SHORTLISTED Lucie Foundation Scholarship Program
2017
FINALIST (2017) Urban Photo Awards
2016
HONORABLE MENTION International Photography Awards
2015
HONORABLE MENTION International Photography Awards
TUFO 2017 | Matera, Italy shortlisted in The Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017 shortlisted in The Lucie Foundation Scholarship Program 2017 shortlisted in The Urban Photo Awards 2017 group shows: 2017 – Reclaim Photography Festival, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery / UK
To see where the ground leaves off and the building begins would require careful attention. But this organic ”ground-motive”, variety in unity. Once established in general practise, would be definite and Infinite. [Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City, New York 1958]
Tufo is a volcanic rock and Sassi di Matera is a city excavated in tufo. Sassi has been isolated from civilization until ’50s of the 20th century. When public opinion called this place shame of Italy, because of a poverty and unhealthy living conditions. Some people were living in a kind of cave houses without electricity. For this reason, authorities made decision to relocate autochthons to new social houses. Thus, the city was abandoned until ’80s. But later, Sassi started to be consider as a cultural heritage and finally was included on the UNESCO list. Today this is a desirable place. New incomers have inhabited Sassi. Fancy hotels and restaurants have been opened. The process of gentrification has been going on. Sassi means stone. The city has been constructed for hundreds of years and is an example of vernacular architecture – made without architects. The culturenature distinction is blurred here. Sassi is a result of pragmatic needs of its habitants. It is an inhabited landscape. Space morphology could be depicted as a tension between negative and positive form or volume and void.
PRODUCTIVE / SENSORY PATHWAY 2016 | Matera, Italy Open Design School - residency for the European Capital of Culture 2019 collaboration with Tommaso Schiuma group shows: 2016 – Open Design School – Complesso del Casale / Matera, Italy 2017 – Open Design School – Milano Design Week 2017 / Italy
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intepretation of cave morflogy excavation
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Matera is surrounded by tuff quarries. One of the former quarry is going to be reused as an event space for the European Capital of Culture 2019. Quarries are unique and strong landscape, but are abandoned in the same time. Because of a distance and shortage of easy access, there is a lack of connection between them and the city. Many inhabitants have never use the space. The goal of the project is to support public functions in the quarry by developing a physical link between the quarry and the city. Following a productive character of the quarry from the past, the idea is to create a productive path that will connect this places.
The new subject of production is food, because the Basilicata is farming region and in the past agriculture occurred also in the city. From 16th to 18th century there where vegetable and fruits gardens on rooftops and terraces of Sassi di Matera. A contemporary reinterpretation of this gardens is the productive path - fulfilled with herbs. Now, you can experience smell of herbs, growing wild in the former quarry. The concept is to give a piece of this sensory experience of the quarry to the distant city and create not only visual and functional connection, but a sensory one, which is more powerful. The project is a flexible structure that consists of modules devoted to food production. The structure is easy to assemble with local materials (e.g. wood, ceramics, textile). The goal is to give a tool for local community to easy form and maintain an agriculture infrastructure, that can define the productive path and occur in the city too. The project is open for future modifications. To allow them and to enable global use in different contexts, modules are based on the open structure matrix.
2017 - Open Design School - Milano Design Week 2017 / Italy source: https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2017/04/09/atelier_clerici_2017.html
WE ARE OPEN 2016 | Matera, Italy Open Design School – residency for the European Capital of Culture 2019
OPEN One simple idea, how to infrom local community about the Open Design School. Put an “obstacle� in the public space to encourge debate about real obstacles in the city.
BÜRCHEN MYSTIK – HOTEL COMPLEX 2013 | Bürchen, Switzerland Ist AWARD in a competition with MENIS Arquitectos my contribution: – project coordiantor in the IInd stage of a contest – presentation – book – concept work – concept of the Fire Temple
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We propose the challenge of rethinking and reconsidering a place for the foreseeable future, a touristic place that is local at the same time, characterized by its breathtaking nature. While the locals want to invigorate the town, the visitors want to experience the untouched landscape of the Swiss countryside. To preserve natural landcape and keep the view to the mountains we designed hotel complex as a lanscape extension. Just like in the Treasury of Atreus the buildings are invisible from one side and are strong dominante from the other side.
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URBAN FARMING ARCHITECTURE 2019 | TU Wrocław, Poland PhD thesis Key worlds: urban farming, agrarian urbanism, urban farm, urban gardening, productive landscape, food urbanism
Abstract Because of agricultural practices in cities, an urban-rural hybrid space has materialised, which is the urban farming architecture. Still, according to research, urban agriculture has long traditions that are embedded in cultural practices and are visible in local architectural concepts. The subject of the dissertation is contemporary urban farming architecture, defined as urban spaces and objects which are located within cities and dedicated to growing of edible plants. This study aims to investigate strategies that facilitate urban development integrating the life of the city with the food production. The research question is: how agriculture is implemented in an urban area while making it more socially, economically and environmentally responsible. To examine it the following methods were used: literature review, case studies, projects descriptions and analysis and synthesis based on comparison. This work consists of two parts. The first part discusses issues affecting contemporary spatial design of a city integrated with farming, i.e.: historical examples of agrarian practice in cities, separation of food production and cities, as a consequence of processes related to the industrial revolution, the utopian idea of GardenCity, concept of agrarian and self-sufficient settlement, agriculture in modern planning, the idea of decentralization in the concepts of agrarian urbanism and the contemporary idea of the productive landscape.
The second part focuses on contemporary urban structures related to food production in the city. This section is based on series of case studies and systematization of urban farming architecture. The case studies were used to discuss the following issues: history of allotment gardens and their current significance, architecture of community gardens and urban farms and their role in urban renewal and the food security, vertical farms and the idea of public food production. A summary of this part is the atlas of urban farming architecture typology. The results of the thesis demonstrate that the production of goods under urban agriculture goes beyond private goods, such as food produced for market or own use. The examples discussed show that urban farming performs economic, social and ecological functions. It can be used as a tool in urban renewal as well as provide real help in crisis situations by supporting food sovereignty.
BETTER TOMORROW 2017 | Wrocław, Poland Ist award in The Different Worlds 2017 shortlisted in The Urban Photo Awards 2017 group shows: 2017 – Different Worlds – Photon Gallery / Ljubljana, Slovenia 2018 – Different Worlds – Photon Gallery / Vienna, Austria 2018 – Better Tomorrow – BWA Studio / Wrocław, Poland
Photon gallery / Ljubljana, Slovenia
Achievements of industrial revolution, which enabled longdistance transport resulted with separation of cities and food production. Spatial pattern of modern metropolis, for instance urban growth and lack of vegetated areas, were influenced by industrialization of food as such. In the early decades of the XX century, urban planners and architects responded with visions of ideal cities, where food cultivation was indicated as a leading factor. Allotment gardens are remains of modern, utopian visions from this time. The aim was to provide new urban dwellers a piece of land to produce their own food. Better tomorrow is a story about some alternative place in the city, which lives beyond a profit maximization paradigm and beyond an urban order. The project refers to visions of ideal cities from the industrial era. To emphasise its utopian element, it focuses on garden as an ideal space without a nature-culture distinction. Pictures were taken during different seasons and weather conditions to catch an unusual light and show landscape diversity and variability. The aim is to create an oneiric esthetic and frames from a wonderland. By photographing allotments, I attempt to point out an optional approach to human habitat and food production. I see garden as a proper model of our activity on the environment.
GARDEN STRUCTURE 2014 | Poland competition project: container structure for an urban farming
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ABAMA – RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX 2013 | Teneryfa, Hiszpania with MENIS Arquitectos my contribution: – project coordiantor – concept – 2D drawings – graphic work – presentation
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POMORSKA ISLAND – APARTMENTS 2012 | Wrocław, Poland HONORABLE MENTION in a competition with TOPROJEKT my contribution: – concept work – graphic work
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CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY 2010 | Wrocław, Poland student project
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HOSTEL TOWER 2011 | Barcelona, Spain diploma project honorable mention
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OPERALAB PAVILION 2012 | Warsaw, Poland competition project mobile pavilion
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HERBARIUM 2015 | Poland competition project: lamp: acrylic glass and dried, pressed plants
GEO-3 UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2014 | Wrocław, Poland competition project with Manufaktura No 1 my contribution: – concept – 2D drawings
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PARK 2012 | Opole, Poland competition project with Manufaktura No 1 my contribution: – concept – 2D drawings
COURT OF APPEAL 2014 | Wrocław, Poland competition project: with Manufaktura No 1 my contribution: – concept – 2D drawings
PUBLIC SQUARE 2014 | Warsaw, Poland competition project: with Manufaktura No 1 my contribution: – concept – 2D & 3D drawings – graphic work
PUBLIC SQUARE 2012 | Rybnik, Poland concept stage with TOPROJEKT my contribution: – urban analysis – concept work
source: www.toprojekt.com/#/pl/projects,all
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