INSIDE / OUTSIDE
ROBERT SVAIA PORTFOLIO OF ARCHITECTURE 01
INSIDE / OUTSIDE
Inside / Outside explores the relationship between urban areas, regions, landscapes, and neighborhoods and the interventions that seek to formulate new conceptions about the role of public space, art institutions, foreign programs, as well as housing for changing populations.
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SCALE UP! BATHSPACE AFLOAT INTO THE WATER PROFESSIONAL WORK
SCALE UP! Rooms, Wrapper, Perforations, Insertions, Protrusions, Inflatables Center for Emerging Artists and Designers Whittier / MPLS / MN Advanced Studio 05 - Daylighting September - December 2016 Professor Mary Guzowski
“To apparently everybody’s satisfaction, the abandoned industrial space has become art’s default preference - Rem Koolhaas
INTERVENTION IN NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT
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Scale Up! envisions a village of diverse yet integrated parts, a collection of studios, galleries, and other art spaces mimicking the existing non-hiearchical site aspects of this parking lot south of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Whittier and countering Koolhaas’ critique The intervention proposes an anchor which unites this collection of deteriorated elements under a flexible circulation space covered by a skin, which produces opportunities for flexible inside-outside spaces, regulates daylighting, 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. 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. Openings in the massing, as well as a fluid relationship to the skin create a dynamic space. The goal was an intervention shaped by light and the surrounding site context. The proposal suggests that art is a guiding force in public space, and seasonally the building changes character, flexibility, and openness.
CONCEPT
NEIGHBORHOOD SCALES
INTERACTIONS
City
Institution Neighborhood ood
FORMAL PLAY COLLECT
SHIFT
MICROCOSM
WRAP + PUNCTURE
CONCEPT MASSING MODELS
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PROGRAM
FLOW
OPACITY
LANDSCAPE
TEMPORARY ATRIUM SPACE OVERCAST CONDITION
BLACK LIVES MATTER
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RKET MA
STRUCTURE + ENVELOPE
ETFE PILLOW
STRUCTURAL SECTION SPACEFRAME
STEEL STRUCTURE W/ SYSTEMS
ETFE FILM
GLASS
SHADE
ROOF PLAN SHADE
OPERABLE OPERABLE ETFE
ROOM SHELLS
ELEVATION PLAN
SHADE
FLOOR PLATES
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SHADE
DAYLIGHT STUDIO ROOM STUDY
TOWER SECTION MODEL
SECTION MODEL
STUDIO DAYLIGHT STUDY
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PLANS
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ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION / URBAN FARMING
ADMINISTRATION
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ART + DESIGN INCUBATOR SPACE
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INSTALLATION GALLERY
OPEN TO BELOW STAGE SET HANDLING
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TERRACE
VIEWING SPACE + EVENTS FLEX-SPACE
THEATER 3D GALLERY
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RESTROOM
ART EDUCATION
ATRIUM DAYLIGHT CONDITION MECHANICAL + STORAGE
2D STUDIO
TERRACE
STAGE WORKSHOP 2D GALLERY
INSTALLATION GALLERY 7 CAFE + BAR
GALLEY KITCHEN
COMMUNITY KITCHEN ATRIUM
DIGITAL STUDIO
DOCK
ENTRY LOBBY 3D STUDIO
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TICKETS THEATER LOBBY
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CAFE
AIRLOCK
LOADING
MCAD LOADING
SITE FORCES + RESPONSES
MCAD ENTRY
PARKING
SITE BREAK UP SCULPTURE GARDEN
MCAD HOUSING
PROPORTION
OCCUPIABLE / NON-OCCUPIABLE
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SITE PLAN AND NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT
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BATHSPACE: URBAN LIVING ROOM Foreign Program, Familiar Territory, Identity Crisis.
Bath House and Public Space Dinkytown / MPLS / MN Studio 03 - Programming + Typologies September - December 2015 Professor Andrew Blaisdell
URBAN LIVING ROOM: NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK BY SANAA
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Certain architectural typologies often gradually disappear and remerge due to a new need or reinterpretation of a historical paradigm. With the continuous advent of new technology and a shift inthe functions of the built environment, some programs have undergone an identity crisis. The bath house in the modern American context could prove to be the most controversial. In the 1970s, Bath houses in urban area like New york and San Francisco were the centers for Gay culture and community and likewise the center for poltiical and socail controversy, and violence. 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.
CONCEPT
PARTI
SITE
STREET MOVEMENT
MASS LIFT
INSERTIONS
DURATION + CONGREGATION
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30m - 1hr 10s
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SKY DECK PERSONAL POOLS
LOA G LOADING
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RECEPTION RECEP CEP EPTION O WOMEN CHANGING ROOM
CAFE CA A E
LOUNGE L U
MODEL OF PUBLIC URBAN SPACE
ENT ENTRY TR R
S A BATHS STEAM BA PUBLIC PO POO OOL OO POOL
SAUNAS
LARGE A POOL O L SAUNAS
SAUNAS
MODEL OF INTERIOR CIRCULATION
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AXON OF BATHSPACE
DRAWING STUDIES
EARLY SITE SECTIONAL DRAWING STUDY: CHARCOAL
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APPROACH DRAWING STUDY
ENTERING UPPER MASS
SECTION MODEL
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AFLOAT Addressing Copenhagen’s Refugee Crisis through Temporary Housing
Acute Refugee Housing Nørrebro / Copenhagen / DK DIS AD PROGRAM - STUDIO January - March 2016 Professor Marie-Louise Holst
COPENHAGEN NEIGHBORHOOD TEXTURE
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As much of Western Europe tackles the influx of asylum seekers from the Middle East and other volatile regions, a wave of xenophobia and nationalism has re-emerged. An array of responses from Merkel’s unpopular resettling policies, to informal settlements have reshaped the direction of the European project rapidly. Concurrently, the city is tackling a shortage of housing for students which has led to concepts of new student housing some of which were presented at the 2016 Venice Biennale alongside issues of refugee resettlement and migration. The intervention proposes a permanent housing structure for asylum seekers and students with temporary implications, and a dynamic presence. The setting is an urban infill site in Norrebro, the most diverse and young neighborhood in Copenhagen, that is currently tackling conflicts between ethnic and immigrant Danish identities. The intervention proposes housing as a space in permanent, uninterrupted flux owned and utilized by the existing community as well as the asylum seekers rather than a new stable home to integrate foreigners into Danish society. And thus the intervention exists as measure of larger housing patterns in the region. An attention is placed on the qualities of experience of home and community and relationship to an urban environment that underline the contemporary human condition. The dynamic yet subtle facade creates a dynamic presence in the area which covers an inner more transparent membrane which gives a sense of cohesion between the residential portion and public space below.
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EN / DK nørrebro population / befolkning: 79,669 personer københavn population / befolkning: 591,485 personer 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
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heighest concentration neighborhoods: nørrebro, vesterbro, valby, bispebjerg, nordvest, østerbro
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VOLUME
SHIFT + FLOAT
CURVE + ADAPTATION
PROGRAMMING + CONNECTIONS
INTER LEVEL CONNECTIONS
OUTER MEMBRANE (METAL)
INNER MEMBRANE (GLASS)
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STREET + INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMMING
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WORKSHOP WORKSHO
PUBLIC PUBLIC C GARDEN GA RDEN
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MODEL OF INTERVENTION + GARDEN
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INTO THE WATER Re-engaging an urban, post-industrial, non-place along the Mississippi River
Public Recreation Center and Landscape East River Flats Park / MPLS / MN Studio 02 - Site January - May 2015 Professor Aaron Amosson
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BANKS, MPLS MN
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Minneapolis has undergone a shift from an industrial hub centered around rural agriculture to a city oriented toward services and light-industry in the urban and sub-urban contexts. The results are post-industrial remnants tied to the Mississippi River Valley, which physically cuts through the urban centers of the Twin Cities. The urban grid of the city orients itself toward the river, but as many industrial waterways, the river was largely avoided as an area for public space development. The unique quality of the river in the city is its constant shifts seasonally. In the winter, water on the riverbank freezes, creating a sort of extension of the landmass, and redefines the notion of a shoreline. The intervention, a public recreation center in East River Flats Park, attempts to redefine an existing non-place by re-engaging the land shifts of the river and its relationship to the urban context above the valley both at a master-plan scale with a series of buildings that program an existing field, and observations of materials and remnants on the existing site. The building in its massing, connects the density of the campus above the valley, with the fragmented nature of the riverbank. Through a series of paths, which become the roofs and floors that gradually lose a sense of directionality and hierarchy, flexible and impromptu programming can occur, and there is a retention of the existing landscape quality.
EAST RIVER ROAD PUSH/PULL
ENTRY EN NTRY RY
LOADING
STORAGE
PARKING PARKING RKI G
MAIN MA N BUILDING BUIL U LLDIN ING NG
PLAZA P PLA LAZA AZA A A CAFE / BIKE SHOP INTERACTIONS
BIKE PATH OUTDOOR SEAT S A I G OUTDOOR U D OR SEATING
BOAT RENTAL AMPHITHEATER CENTER + CELLS
DOCK
MASSING + CONTEXT
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SITE PLAN ON RIVERBANK
COVERED TERRACE
INITIAL VISION SKETCHES
AERIAL OF INTERVENTION ON SITE
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SITE MODEL
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PROFESSIONAL WORK Work from Internship at BCVA Arkitekter: Housing, Competitions, Urban Plans, and Exhibition Concepts
Copenhagen, DK + Venice, IT BCVA - Bjelke, Cermak, Veile Arkitekter Copenhagen, DK Student Internship February - May 2016
As an intern at the up-incoming design office in Copenhagen, BCVA, I worked with a team of 3-4 other interns and the 3 partners to develop and test concepts for several different projects in the office. I was mainly involved with 3 projects, a Mixed-Use housing concept for apartments surrounding an existing grocery store in Amagerbro, Copenhagen, the exhibtion model for the Paper Island Redevelopment in Copenhagen in collaboration with MVRDV, and a student-housing concept to address Copenhagen’s housing shortage, based on an existing unused ship-building facility. This student-housing project, B+W was exhibited at the Danish Pavilion’s show ‘Art of Many, The Right to Space” part of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. I worked on finishing touches of the model’s assembly as well as catalog images and drawings for the exhibition supplement materials. Other tasks in the office, included the construction of study site and context models for several projects, as well as testing new forms and massing strategies on site. I also worked on the construction of final models for some exhibition work, including the Paper Island development, where I constructed the main site from existing plans and renderings and collaborated on the site model construction. I worked on diagramming several projects for competitions, prepared images I photographed of the models, and prepared renderings for exhibitions and competition entries. Other tasks included translation of office material, delivery of materials around the city, and marketing for the office.
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PAPER ISLAND
PAPER ISLAND (PAPIROEN) REDEVELOPMENT COMPETITION MODEL Redevelopment competition for the popular Paper Island in Copenhagen, a highly visited street food center and entertainment district. Concept for new housing and mixed-use programming on the island and better connections to the harbor and city Contribution: Center Model development, collaboration on full site model with others Materials: Foam, Foamcore, Plexi, Cardboard, Wood
B+W STUDENT HALLS - VENICE BIENNALE
B+W STUDENT HOUSING HALLS RENDERING Collaboration with other office designers, contribution: photoshop work from rendering and underlay photograph
B+W STUDENT HALLS
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B+W HOUSING IN DANISH PAVILION CATALOG FOR VENICE BIENNALE Contribution: Photography and layout Book by Boris Brorman
As part of the Danish Pavilion of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. I collaborated with designers at BCVA Arkitekter on the catalog compilation of the conceptual work regarding the design and finishing touches on drawings, renderings, models and photographs. The project researched the growing housing crisis in Copenhagen. BCVA suggested the conversion of a dockyard building in the north of Copenhagen, the largest building in Denmark and an old ship building facility for Maersk into a student housing complex which promoted large public activities like concerts and sport (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current use). Apartments are scattered throughout the refortified exterior walls.
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COOP ENGLANDSVEJ - CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Concept for apartments surrounding an existing grocery store to increase density in the city, and create mixed use programming Contribution: Study models and Site model (Left) Materials: Foam, Foamcore, Cardboard
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ROBERT SVAIA
B.S. ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 847.532.3466 ROBSVA@GMAIL.COM DESIGNER MPLS / CHICAGO
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