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RUZHA SIRMANOVA
GOOD DESIGN IS OBVIOUS. GREAT DESIGN IS TRANSPARENT. — Joe Sparano
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TEMPLE FOR ALL RELIGIONS HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM FINAL YEAR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT MAY 2014
Maya hammam and Spa BRADFORD, UK FINAL YEAR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 2014
Mining memorial MORLEY, LEEDS 48HOUR CHALLENGE FOR A CONCEPT DESIGN MARCH 2013
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NARRATIVE ligions without disturbing temples strategies, the building is able to traffic. Its entrance is orientated
The proposal is for a complex with a religious monument which would represent the most popular beliefs in Vietnam: Animism, Taoism and Buddhism. The purpose of the building is to raise awareness of traditions which have been neglected due to recent fast development of the country. The place will offer locals to go back to their roots and explore their origins, and for youths to learn about their ancestors and for to tourists to discover the intricate details around the mysticism of the re-
and pagodas visitors.
The complex includes another building (south wing) where activities typical to each religion are practiced: yoga, tai chi, calligraphy and meditation have separate cells, specially tailored to the specific traits to each activity. Furthermore, merchandise pods are provided for street sellers to rent and accommodation for the staff and few visitors to stay in are introduced. This way through rent and sustainable recycling
support itself completely on its own. The site is situated in one of the biggest parks in Ho Chi Minh City. The 23/9 park is a narrow strip of vegetation divided in three by some of the bigger boulevards in the city centre. The proposal is placed in the first strip which with its position is the most appropriate for a new design of this sort as it is situated in close proximity to the Ben Thanh Market, the Bus station and the biggest ring road in the city: the ring of death. Surrounded by busy boulevards, the park is in the middle of a sea of
in a way that a traveler can see it from far. It creates a promenade with the anticipation one experiences while approaching the site. Yet is stays far and untouched as it doesn’t offer any parking area and other traveler needs to walk to go inside. The proposal lines up with this axis leading from Le Loi Boulevard to the entrance of the 23/9 green area. This orientation is even more likable as it coincides with the typical orientation of most pagodas and buddhist temples: East-West which is set by the sun rise and sunset.
TEMPLE FOR ALL RELIGIONS HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM GROUND FLOOR 1. Spirit House 2. Stone Garden 3. Taoist Turtle and Koi fish Pool 4. Taoist “Temple“/ Gallery 5. Plant room 6. Lecture Hall 7. Small reception 8. Office 9. Changing rooms, showers and toilets 10. Plant room Activity Hubs: 11. Yoga Hub 12. Tai Chi Hub 13. Meditation Hub 14. Calligraphy classroom 15. Small gallery 16. Staircase to accommodation 17. Book shop 18. Street sellers’ pods
FIRST FLOOR 19. Taoist “Temple“/Gallery 20. Buddhist “Temple”/ Gallery 21. Living Room/ DIning area for visitors and staff 22. Terrace with seating and outside dining area 22a. Small stage for games and performances 23. Accommodation with private bathrooms
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1. Aluminium standing beam roof; watercourse;timber panels; purlins; curved lamboo beam 2. Galvanized steel joint connecting the beams and the columns 3. Bamboo shutter 4. Rammed earth wall: hydrophobic layer, hydrophobic render, rammed earth, lamboo column 5. Gutter: a. timber stop: b. capsheet fully bonded throughout the length of the gutter; fully lapped under the edge of the timber panel; c. angle fillet; d. insulation 6. Balustrade 7. Bamboo shutter: steel shoulder; a. glulam, b. galvanized steel hanger, c. galvanized steel hinge 8. Timber floor: finish, timber panels, joist fixed with galvanized steel braces, damp proof membrane, soft board (services running in between) 9. Concrete finish, polyethylene sheet, damp proof membrane, fine aggregate, concrete slab with reinforced steel cage, hard core 10. Timber decking 11. Land drain pipe
TECHNOLOGY ASPECT WALL SECTION THROUGH SOUTH WING
Timber decking made of local sustainable wood
Natural ventilation provided by gaps between the rammed earth walls and the roof. Protection from insects and privacy are provided by bamboo shutters.
The thick sculptural walls allow furniture to be featured inside them sparing space and making up fot what they take with their thickness (450mm-1000mm). Shelves and seating are easily carved in. Areas are easily differentiated through change of levels.
Bamboo roof covered by aluminium sheets which protect it from rain and moisture. Robust flexible and available, bamboo is a popular material in Vietnam.
Lamboo beams introduce flexibility to the structure. They are strong and avail-able as bamboo farms are plenty in the country.
Rammed earth walls are protected by spanning roofs which dont allow rain to fall dierectly on the stone surface which would geopardise its entity
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT SECTION B-B The thickness of the rammed earth walls allows heat to be kept inside or in the materal and slowly released as the temperature changes. Therefore, no fluctuations are allowed and heat is kept outside
Long thin punctures through the wall allow hot air risen up to move through the building. Double height spaces provide the inhabited areas to be kept cool.
Maya, hammam and spa BRADFORD, UK 1. Main reception 2. A secluded waiting area. 3. Changing rooms 4. Cold room 5. Warm Rooms 6. Hot Room 7. Swimming pool 8. Sunlight courtyard 9. Pool plant room 10. Plant room 11. Kitechen and storage 12. Tea rooms 13. Two small massage rooms 14. Office and linen closet
The outside garden offers seating and shade, where passers by can explore the freze.
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SECTION A-A
NARRATIVE The new proposal is for a spa and leisure centre in Bradford. It is inspired by the middle Eastern cosmetic traditions. Henna is an art practiced by women when parts of the body are painted with different patterns. A hammam is a sequence of spalike places where different procedures are executed. The body is washed, exfoliated and cleansed with organic oils and crystals.
SECTION B-B
The proposal is situated in the Bradford city park, with a view of the Bradford Mirror pool. It is surrounded by several patches of green spaces and is in a pedestrian area. The landscape around the site is developed in a way to create a slope between it and a busy road on an upper level south from the city park. The site is in one of the busiest and most popular zones of the area. It is full of commercial buildings with shops, cafes and restaurants. It is currently a popular destination for the Bradford citizens. A place for rest and entertainment. After the procedures have taken place and one is finished using the pool, they can wander into the courtyard garden or the tea room. The tea room is the last event of the If not they can take their time in the tea room before they return to the changing room. This “break“ gives the body a chance to readjust.
After one is done with their procedures they can cool down in the pool which is the lowest space in the sequence. Completely underground, the pool represents the final stage of cleanse; the last dark point before the visitors starts emerging back from the ground and into the light through the courtyard garden or the tearoom. The controlled natural light allows visibility but is soft and mellow.
The hammam consists of three rooms which accommodate different cleansing procedures: starting with aa cold, to a warm and lastly to a hot one.
Mining memorial MORLEY, UK WINDOR GARDENS CONCEPT REDEVELOPMENT 48-HOUR CHALLENGE
NARRATIVE A history research of the area has established the Leeds suburbs as a town with traditions in mining which has seized majorly but is still practiced. However, further reading has showed that several mining accidents have taken minors as vicitims, some of which fairly recent. A quick look in the town center shows various memorials from famous comedians to proclaimed sports figures who have grown up in Morley. The town appears to be proud with its citizens achievements not letting it’s size and decreasing population forget about the community’s achievements through the years.
Mining is defenitely one of Mor- events and festivals, currently ley’s significant traits in terms of held in the main streets and pehistory; with both its great and destrian areas in near proximity. tragic moments. My suggestion of a shertered Announcing their wish to rede- monument is to be a place where velop the Windsor Court near the small public events could be held. Town Hall, Morleans asked students from the University to sug- The structure consists of two tungest ideas for what could be done in the currently unused area, The idea of a Mining Memorial has been welcomed with great appreciation of the Town Hall representatives. who had already realised there hasn’t been any monument for the mining victims from their town. Studying the local traditions, the town appears to be a host of several comedy, music and literature
nels, representing the mines. The sheltered areas could be used for Christmas markets and housing stalls and small shops. The tilted roof of one of the tunnels creates amphitheatrical seating where a small public could be positioned during readings and musical events.
BRITISH FOLKLORE MUSEUM MORLEY, UK CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
NARRATIVE The project of the British Folklore Museum was requested by the Morley Council as a restoration/ demolition programme of the local theatre which is currently deserted. The new development
sits on the base of the original building, using some of its loadbearing walls. The materials of the original building are recycled and reused in the interior of the museum. The museum’s concept is de-
rived from the medieval British town and is made to resemble a town-scape, rather than the insides of a building with stone and pavement, street lights and clocks recreating the true atmosphere about the folklore museum.
GROUND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
FOUNTAIN STREET ELEVATION
NARRATIVE The case is developed to need the least space but give the visitor chance to observe items on display from all sides. A thin timber slice is pierced by transparent glass spheres with a glass base in the centre of each, where an item can be rested, offering a pretty much 360 view of it. They come in different sizes, and are accompanied by some empty circular slots, for more spheres to be inserted if there’s more items to be on display. Otherwise, the empty spaces offer further transparency of the overall piece of furniture, enhancing orientation and visibility in the different halls and rooms. Each glazed “bubble“ offers a light fixing at the bottom of it, installed from the floor through the spine of the case. Furthermore, the bottom of it offers two drawers to store different items of the exhibition according to annual themes, festivals and events. The flat part of the timber body features a metal and timber plaque with glazed protective coating on top, to accommoddate images and explanatory text accompanying the display. Another, larger light fixing is situated on top of the slightly elevated from the ground storage part, in order to illuminate the whole upper body of the case. The piece is finished with the author’s initials to mark the uniqueness of the product.
BRITISH FOLKLORE MUSEUM MORLEY, UK CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OF A CUSTOM DISPLAY CASE
AN ARCHITECT KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT EVERYTHING. AN ENGINEER KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT ONE THING. — 101 Things I Learnt in Architecture School
500 WORDS OF DESIGN is an independent student fanzine dealing with design and its basis.
The initial idea of the small newspaper is to establish the common grounds between different areas of design and unite students from different design courses around the idea that design is similar on every floor of the department, and its basis are common for the obvious sister’s subjects like achitecture and interior design but with fashion, cinema, photography, product and transport design, Since September 2013 a group of about ten students has been developing different subjects and preparing an issue for each term of the academic year. We started small, but now we seem to have grown quickly, become popular with the students and less popular with the health and safetyobsessed. Each issue has an accompanying installation, designed and prepared by a special group of our team, using recycled materials from previous projects. At the same time, each issue focuses on a subject that could be interpreted in various ways. Further, each author takes a turn to share their thoughts on the subjects in the constraints of 500 words, hence the title. From what makes good design, to design abroad and our interpretation to what it is that form actually follows, we have developed so much that the last of our issues made it to China, along with the final year’s trip abroad. Last but not least, my main responsibilities towards the fanzine include editing, organization and graphic design, as well as some less exciting activities like promotion, maintaining communication with the staff, funding and budget handling.
FANZINE noun Line breaks: fan|zine /’fanzi:n/ A magazine, usually produced by amateurs, for fans of a particular performer, group, or form of entertainment *with modifier: a football fanzine Origin: In 1940s US, a blend of fan and magazine
PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARTWORK IMAGE EDITING is one of my more recently
skills developed through my
course have been helping me evolve artwork; modelWith my first attempts obvi- making, laser-cutting, drawing and sketching techously in architecture, I have niques, photography, have slowly developed an affinturned into more than meity for this art so strongly dias to present my design related to my field, yet so but into projects on their different. own. It was only recently when I Artwork, small installations started having more time to attend gigs and hence to and my most favorite bits and pieces of photogra- sketchbooks - have turned phy for local bands and art- into a hobby rather than just form of architecture and ists, along with some more design related work. writing I have been doing regarding the British music scene. discovered hobbies.
ANIMATED, THE PARISH, HUDDERSFIELD JULY, 2013
Thank you for your time and attention! Ruzha Sirmanova Part I Architecture Graduate For more info: ruzha_sirmanova@abv.bg or call 07543501516