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Throughout my work, I seek to expand the engagement of architectural interventions with the surrounding urban fabric to tackle our mounting urban issues and dismantle the movement toward the privatization of public spaces. By examining new opportunities for interactions between the individual citizen and the collective population, my concepts engage with regional contexts and iterate upon existing typologies, to establish a dialogue about the emergent possibilities for place-making in the city. I am curious about an architecture that can be more porous and playful with its surroundings, eliciting more participation from citizens and reintroducing meaning to our places. Princeton’s Speculative and research based approach to architectural thought and practice will allow me to expand on these discoveries, tackling rigidity in our urban environments. Bathspace, Urban Living Room introduces the bath typology to Dinkytown, a university adjacent Minneapolis neighborhood. I examined the modern and historical characteristics of Baths as a significant urban public space, historically, as well as an important element of both Minnesotan culture. Placing the bath in a primarily commercial and student oriented district represents a departure from the conventional settings of the bath typology in its modern history. To connect the site to the vibrant street life of the neighborhood, the interior circulation of the Bathspace seamlessly fuses with the adjacent street corner. This integration allows Bathspace to serve as both a public thoroughfare for casual passage and a community center. Due to Minneapolis’ harsh winter climate, indoor public spaces are a key element to an active city life. This paradigm, regardless of climatic issues, applied in other contexts has the ability to reshape the role of buildings in our cities, by introducing a range public and semi-public activity zones, that can foster community development and introduce new uses to a city. As a researcher in Copenhagen, I expanded on this concept, by studying projects that not only integrate the urban environment within their architecture, but also provide amenities in return to the city including infrastructural connections and community programming. I am excited about the possibility for architecture to become more informal and an active participant in the city around. I will further develop my perspective of the opportunities to expand urbanism across a more conscious platform as a Master of Architecture candidate and a participant in research initiatives including the Center for Architecture, urbanism, and Infrastructure. I agree with the center’s vision of architecture as the responsible field for synthesizing the complex issues facing our cities, and am intrigued by projects including the MOS proposal to work beyond the traditional boundaries of “plots and properties.” Through a speculative design approach through enhanced representation techniques, new fabrication technologies, and a strong critical theory component and emphasis on writing, I hope to explore how architecture can learn and ultimately give back to the city and expand my research approach. Following my graduate studies, I plan to launch a collaborative initiative to construct the city in a more democratic fashion, and to obliterate the hierarchical nature of the field. Thank you for your consideration, Robert Svaia
INTO, OUT OF, OVER, BETWEEN, PROPOSES AN ARCHITECTURE THAT IS POROUS, ADAPTIVE, AND FLEXIBLE TO MEET THE COMPLEXITIES OF NEEDS IN OUR GROWING CITIES. IT EXAMINES TOPICS RELATED TO IDENTITY OF PLACE, THE MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS, THE STATE OF THE ART INSTITUTION AS A PUBLIC SPACE, AND THE POTENTIAL OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO CREATE NEW URBAN SITUATIONS.
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Above: Precedent study collage of an “Urban Living Room” the New Museum, New York
BATHSPACE: URBAN LIVING ROOM
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UG STUDIO 03 PROGRAM + TYPOLOGIES FALL 2015 / FALL 2017 PROF. ANDREW BLAISDELL
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FOREIGN PROGRAM, FAMILIAR TERRITORY, IDENTITY CRISIS. A BATHHOUSE IN THE DINKYTOWN DISTRICT OF MINNEAPOLIS
Bathspace interrogates the bath typology and the state of the public recreation building in the city today, drawing upon historical and regional context and utilizing qualities of postindustrial Minneapolis to challenge our notions of how a foreign program may fit into our daily social lives. In the winter city of Minneapolis, indoor public space is crucial to the functioning of the city for most of the year. The intervention suggests a porous open floor that extends the circulation of the street inside. There is a re-emergence of the bath space as a social program, especially in Minneapolis on a local grassroots scale due in part to the relationship of the region to Scandinavia and its bathing traditions, and the demand for social spaces outside the traditional paradigm of the bar. The built environment responds to the notion of what a public space is and what it increasingly is not. The Bath Space program of the intervention becomes a means to define the current role of the public building in the urban context in both a generic sense and specific aspects. The intervention looks at the direction of the public building typology in the urban context. The project considers the relationship of the street to the building, the creation of insertions that connect different parts of the building together, as well as duration and movement throughout.
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1. Northern Minnesota Landscapes, Split Rock Lighthouse 2. “Black Stacks, Helium Sculpture” Otto Piene, 1976, Installation at the St. Anthony Falls Steam Plant, Minneapolis, Photo by Walker Art Center 3. Red Barn Occupation 1970, Dinkytown protest of corporate commercialism by students, photo by William Seaman
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DINKYTOWN DISTRICT, MINNEAPOLIS, MN INDUSTRIAL / CAMPUS / NEIGHBORHOOD / NATURE PARK 1. UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 2. STEAM POWER PLANT 3. MISSISSIPPI RIVER 4. RAIL YARDS 5. DINKYTOWN GREENWAY 6. RAIL TRACKS 7. UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD 8. COMMERCIAL DISTRICT 9. INDUSTRIAL ZONES
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Above: Superkilen and Nørrebro neighborhood public space study
AFLOAT: TEMPORARY HOUSING NOW DIS ABROAD PROFESSIONAL STUDIO (STUDIO 4) SPRING 2016 PROFESSOR MARIE-LOUISE HOLST
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ADDRESSING THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION AND URBAN HOUSING CRISIS WITH A PARED-DOWN INFILL INTERVENTION IN NØRREBRO, COPENHAGEN
Afloat examines the European Migration Crisis in the context of Nørrebro, Copenhagen the most ethnically diverse area of the city. It proposes a micro apartment building housing students and asylum seekers attempting to provide a future for new migrants and to develop a symbiotic relationship between local students and these newcomers that can be supportive of the population, all to build a surrounding community that is more accommodating. In 2016, the Danish Parliament voted to increase border security, threatening the Schengen agreement of open European borders, stirring great controversy and but no clear solutions. Afloat proposes a project that counters the refugee camp model in hopes of integrating migrants directly in their neighborhoods. The adaptive facade serves as an outer membrane, a screen for interior courtyards and balconies, that filters the light to the interior membrane, walls of curtain wall glass that provide views to other parts of the building and outside. The outer membrane features operable louvers which allow for variation of light quality in the building and create a dynamic facade, displaying the life of the building and the personality of the residents, contrasting the monolithic surrounding context of traditional stone apartment buildings and mid century housing blocks. Courtyards cut in between the micro apartment units to introduce light into the center of the building and allow residents to see each other in semipublic zones that become interesting moments of interaction across levels. The lobby is fully transparent to the surrounding community and serves as a center for the neighborhood, providing greater public functionality and interaction with street life. Students and asylum seekers utilize the same public spaces and work together to build a safe zone. The project hopes to initiate an appropriately scaled solution to this massive global issue specifically tailored for dense European cities, that can be more personalized, and help better connect migrants to natives in established European cities.
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1.Superkilen Park, Copenhagen - in N Nørrebro Neighborhood 2. Intervention Site, former car mechanic shop adjacent to the Panum Medical School and Sortedams SSø
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EN / DK nørrebro population / befolkning: 79,669 personer københavn population / befolkning: 591,485 personer
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asylum seekers in DK Q2 2016: 2658 personer density / tæthed: 19,431.2 personer/km² Ryesgade 19 / Housing for 40 asylum seekers / boliger til 40 asylansøgere highest concentration neighborhoods:
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Above: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Halls create an urban street inside the museum
SCALE UP: INSTITUTION AS VILLAGE UG ADVANCED STUDIO 05: DAYLIGHTING FALL 2016 PROF. MARY GUZOWSKI
ART MAKING AND INCUBATOR SPACE IN WHITTIER, MINNEAPOLIS EXAMINING DAYLIGHTING IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE “To apparently everybody’s satisfaction, the abandoned industrial space has become art’s default preference - Rem Koolhaas
Scale Up envisions a village of diverse, yet integrated parts, a collection of studios, galleries, and other art spaces playing upon the existing non-hiearchical site aspects of this parking lot south of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. It examines Koolhaas’ suggestion regarding the banality of the 21st century art space, and dismantles this notion by providing a series of varying spaces that challenge the production of art and create new opportunities for artists and thinkers. The intervention proposes an anchor to the South side of the campus, which counters the existing monolithic structures by proposing a collection of deteriorated elements under a flexible circulation space covered by a skin, a steel and ETFE panel enclosure that assembles the ‘kit of parts’ into a single distinct institution. It counters the qualities of the other campus structures which turn themselves away from the neighborhood. It produces opportunities for flexible inside-out-side spaces, and regulates day-lighting, and entry. A few elements perforate through the skin, including a tower, oriented towards the city as a relationship between the village scale of the surrounding eclectic neighborhood, the institution of the school and museum, and the city beyond. The intervention’s circulation space provides opportunity for insertions and perforations, as well as temporary spaces. Inflatables that can fit in and fill zones between masses provide temporary spaces for events. The intervention’s circulation space leaves room for insertions and perforations, as well as temporary spaces. Inflatables that can fit in and fill zones between masses. Openings in the massing, as well as a fluid relationship to the skin create an ever evolving spatial condition. The proposal suggests that art is a guiding force in public space, and seasonally the building changes character, flexibility, and openness thus changing its porosity and character and introducing a new center point for the campus.
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Above: Scale Down, view through alley conďŹ gured as an outdoor lounge
SCALE DOWN: BUS STOP, BLOCK PARTY INDEPENDENT PROJECT BASED ON SCALE UP FALL 2017
BUS SHELTER INFRASTRUCTURE AS URBAN THEATER, INFILL INTERVENTION IN WHITTIER, MINNEAPOLIS CONNECTING TWO IMPORTANT STREETS.
ACTIVITY SECTION - 3/8” SCALE PHYSICAL MODEL + COLLAGE
Scale Down: Bus Stop, Block Party, expands on Scale Up by examining the residential scale’s connection to urban infrastructure. In a primarily residential neighborhood of Whittier, Minneapolis, Scale down proposes an infill infrastructure project, using spaces in between existing residential structures, while breaking down traditional notions of property lines and zoning. Scale down proposes an infrastructure that moves beyond the utilitarian bus shelter, which has had many architectural iterations both locally and internationally but has fundamentally not been thoroughly examined. By extending the bus shelter into the urban block and into the space between two existing turn-of-the-century apartment buildings, Scale Down serves as a interstitial space to activate a connection between a local neighborhood street and the main street of the bus route. It reveals an urban theater: gathering and event spaces for use between a large urban street and a quiet residential road. The intervention is constructed from lightweight materials that can easily be adapted to fit different infill conditions across the neighborhood. Scale Down suggests that Infrastructure can be linked to the institutions in a neighborhood, introducing satellite programming that can enhance the relationship between various stakeholders. Scale Down ultimately interrogates the notion of ownership in the city and proposes that infrastructure can be community initiated and playful, like a Block Party.
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EXCERPTS FROM INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT ADVISORS: RASMUS FRISK, ARKI_LAB. W/ DANIELA SANDLER, UMN SPRING 2016, COPENHAGEN, DK
THROUGH A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS, CASE STUDIES, NEIGHBORHOOD PROFILES, AND EXPLORATIONS, DESIGNED INFRASTRUCTURE: LESSONS FROM COPENHAGEN URBAN DESIGN, EXAMINES THE SYMBIOTIC CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CITY AND URBAN FABRIC IN COPENHAGEN. THE RESEARCH WAS COMPILED INTO A DIGITAL MAGAZINE.
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D. Interviews Excerpts from Magazine Articles: A. Architecture with a Capital A As Copenhagen architects work to produce more concepts and experimentations in their work, it is important to be critical on these ideas and to look at how these buildings give back to the urban environment. Copenhagen has many projects that are pushing the envelope on architectural form, but because of the needs of the city, these projects must be able to connect with the urban environment to provide more seamless transitions from the personal scale to the large regional scale. As one of the first new developments, in the Islands Brygge Neighborhood, the Gemini Residences are constructed from former grain-silos hearkening back the area’s industrial past. The project is an exemplary look at adaptive re-use capabilities to reinvigorate the harbor region, however, the building’s design has caused many issues in the relationship to its urban context. The building is suspended away from the street, the entrances are small and hidden from view, and there is lack of benches, seating, or any urban strategy. The building’s lack of connection has spurred controversy and an adjustment of rules in harbor front development in Copenhagen. The redevelopment of Norreport Station takes into account the historical importance of the site in its design aesthetic as well as its strategic planning. The project focuses on the existing entrances to trains which could not be moved during the design of the new above ground portion. The designers mapped current walking and biking paths between the sites to entrances and uses the negatives as spaces for the massing of the project.
‘Nordhavn is learning from the mistakes made in Sluseholmen, it’s the new direction of Copenhagen development’ - Ulrik Nelson, Gehl Architects
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B. Shared and Separated Spaces Bryggebroen is a car-free bridge constructed to link the Fisketorvet Area with the Islands Brygge neighborhood during the area’s redevelopment in the early 2000s. The design features a path for walking and a biking path in both directions, with a 1 meter tall median that separates the two modes of transportation. Unlike the Langeliniebro bridge, this design does not allow for a casual pass between different levels of transportation speed. What results is somewhat of a pedestrian and cycling super highway, which does the opposite of its intensions, in that it makes the trip across hostile to pedestrians at the two entrances. The median also does not allow for correcting mistakes if biking down the wrong path which results in collisions between bikers who are traveling at too great of a speed and pedestrians that are confused.
C. Future Urbanism Jeanette Frisk, partner at Arki_Lab suggests that we need to design cities with people, not just cities for people and the new wave of Copenhagen development is the question of how to we make buildings that are more flexible and adaptable to new uses and how do we make architecture and urban design about what people want in their cities. She suggests a transition from the masterplan point-of-view to the master process which suggests that there should be a framework in how to develop spaces from the ground up that can be flexible over time. User involvement is key to this and the future of Copenhagen, Arki_Lab focuses its attention to how people can take direct action in their neighborhoods at the smallest scale.
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Copenhagen is one of the leading cities in considering an urban design strategy along with an urban planning outlook. The city is continuing to reach further and further into a more livable, eco-friendly, and socially strong environment for its citizens. Other cities and countries can learn a great deal from the ideas explored in Copenhagen urban design and architecture: how to focus on the people-scale, getting rid of major automobile traffic,connecting buildings to their surrounding landscape in a more symbiotic fashion, and integrating more nature into urban environments. Copenhagen is a model for cities around the world but also must continue to be introspective and critical about its direction. In the coming years Copenhagen will undoubtedly continue to innovate to become an even greater city for people.
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PAPER ISLAND EXHIBITION MODEL - URBAN POWER / BCVA Contribution: Construction and design of main white model, Site context by colleagues
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PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLE OF TWO PRACTICE EXPERIENCES AT INTERNATIONAL OFFICES WORKING TO REDEFINE THE CITY AND BUILD UPON CONTEXTUAL ISSUES
URBAN POWER COPENHAGEN STUDENT INTERNSHIP FEBRUARY - MAY 2016
At Urban Power (formerly BCVA) as part of the Danish Pavilion of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, I assisted designers on the ďŹ nal touches to the model, photographs, renderings, and drawings. At Snow Kreilich, I created a strategy to develop concept and study models to examine landscapes for future projects using CNC fabrication and various materials.
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COOP ENGLANDSVEJ ITERATION MODELS Contribution: All concept models for mixed-use housing concept from existing grocery store.
CATALOG FOR VENICE BIENNALE 2016 Contribution: Photography and work on B+W Housing Model for the Danish Pavilion: ‘Art of the Many’ Book by Boris Brorman
CPH + MPLS SNOW KREILICH ARCHITECTS MINNEAPOLIS DESIGNER, JANUARY - MAY 2017
LANDSCAPE STUDIES, STRAIGHT RIVER REST AREA
PROCESS, CNC FABRICATION Contribution: 3D Rhino modeling from GIS survey, mold casting, CNC fabrication, assistance from Office Shop Manager, implementation of CNC across the office as a tool for studying context.
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Photography by Robert Svaia unless otherwise noted.
INTO / OUT OF / OVER / BETWEEN SELECTED WORKS, 2015 - 2018
ROBERT SVAIA M.ARCH APPLICATION PORTFOLIO FOR PRINCETON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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