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Sonia Kwiatkowska | Curriculum Vitae Jestem młodym architektem z Krakowa szukającym ciekawej i pełnej wyzwań pracy. Interesuję się architekturą użyteczności publicznej i projektowaniem ekologicznym.
Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki
Studia Magisterskie
2015-2017
Numer telefonu: 0048 601 751 050
mail:
sonya.kwiatkowska@gmail.com
Strona internetowa: soniakwiatkowska.com
Software: Praca magisterska pod kierownictwem prof. Piotra Gajewskiego
Save the city!Read some books Obroniona jako projekt z wyróżnieniem publikowana na portalu bryła.pl
Photoshop Revit
Wystawa
Tarnów Przyszłości
AutoCAD
2017-2018
Illustrator Grasshopper Rhinoceros SketchUp
Politecnico Praca pod kierownictwem Stefano Boeriego
Milano MegaWatt
Opublikowana na portalu KooZA/rch Praktyki:
APA Loesch czerw.2016-sierp.2016
di
Milano
Wymiana erasmus
2016-2017
Narzędzia: Office Rysunek odręczny Fotografia WordPress
Języki:
Politechnika Krakowska im. Tadeusza Kościuszki
Studia inżynierskie
2012-2015
Konkursy: Najlepsza Praca Magisteska 2018 Konkurs CembritBOLD Mediateka w Tarnowie YAC Competition SARP na pawilon edukacyjny
Praca inżynierska pod kierownictwem prof. Piotra Gajewskiego
Mediateka w Tarnowie
Uhonorowana Pierwszą nagrodą oraz Grand Prix prezydenta Miasta Tarnowa
Polski Angielski Niemiecki
Praktyki:
MTWW Architekci marzec.2015-maj.2015
Save the city ! Read some books Creative Cave Grand Prix i Pierwsza Nagroda University Island Pawilon edukacyjny | Golędzinów
Włoski
Prawo jazdy - kat. B2 Zainteresowania: Chór, swing, joga i współczesna literatura amerykańska
Letters of recommendation
Milan, June 8th 2017
To whom it may concern, It is my pleasure to recommend Sonia Kwiatkowska as candidate to an Internship in Snøhetta. Sonia has been a student in my Town Planning Design Workshop at Politecnico di Milano. She was a designer of a project that was very interesting in the theoretical approach to the topic of future dwelling. Of particular interest was the graphical representation of the drawings. While spending the six months at the Politecnico she revealed her skills as a promising researcher. Sonia’s ability of collecting and analysing data shaped the way in which the project has been further developed. It has been based on a calculation of basic needs that have to be provided for every human being for a comfortable existence. The aforementioned analysis helped to develop the final form of the design - a bold proposal of a self sufficient building that would provide all the needs for its inhabitants. The vivid and excellent graphical form of presentation made the project look fresh and memorable also thanks to Sonia’s technical ability in managing technical drawing softwares. The project showed an effective and unconventional way of how the design of the future dwelling might look like in the time of climate changes. I definitely recommend Sonia to your institution as I am sure she would provide an added value to your team. Kind Regards,
Stefano Boeri
About
Sonia
Kwiatkowska
soniakwiatkowska.com
1993- n o w
Designer Architecture is my passion, but also a mission. Every project I undertake is to create a better shaped and designed world. I am accustomed to working in a variety of scales - from huge masterplans and public utility buildings to small housing projects and commercial logos.
Engineer Science and mathematics have never been a challenge for me. The word „integral� does not sound like a black magic, however I had, for sure, lost some of my skills. Despite that my scientific background helps me with a logical and analytical approach towards architecture. I am not afraid of parametric design and creating algorithms, I also have some experience in programming and designing websites.
Artist I am a sculptor, a photographer and a painter. I have experience in every aspect of art - I had cut and glued precise models, worked with linocut matrices and painted ethereal watercolors. Since March 2017 I have also been singing as a soprano in the Choir of the Academy of the Fine Arts in KrakĂłw. Art helps me get a new, creative perspective during the design process and defines a different approach towards architecture.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Save Read
Master’s
the some
city! books
Thesis
2016-2017
Type: Individual work Responsibilities: All Task: Designing the development strategy of an area located in the center of Kraków between Karmelicka and Dolnych Młynów street. The surroundings are historical buildings and a Public Library located in historical former military buildings. Challenges: The scale of the yard | Chaotic condition of the surroundings | 60% of the terrain should be biologically active surface Solution: Designing a space that activates the inhabitants | Creating a park based on petite, cameral urban interiors filled with greenery | Main building attracts visitors with its mixed function - library and recreational
Milano MegaWatt -prof. Stefano Boeri
Type: Group work Responsibilities: Research and its graphical representation | Calculations | Modeling in Revit | Shape of the typologies
2016-2017
Task: Predicting and designing how the world will look in 100 years. Finding a solution for the anthropocene Challenges: Creating a concept that connects all of the Scali Milano yards | Designing a hypothetical project based on contemporary law and data | multicultural working environment Solution: Project of experimental, self sufficient way of living | Typologies based on archetypes | Extended research
Design
Workshop
Media in
Library Tarnów
Bechelor
Thesis
Type: Individual work Responsibilities: All
2014-2016
Task: Designing a Media Library in the heart of Tarnów | Necessity of involving the historical wall in the design | Emphasizing the historical surroundings Challenges: Providing all of the functions needed in a small space | Shading of other buildings | Incorporating the historical parts
Creative Future
Cave workplace
Type: Group work Responsibilities: Parametric algorithm | Shape of the pavilions | Mobile app scheme | Plans | Opening scheme |
2017-2017
Task: Designing a future workplace using parametric design Challenges: Creating a universal space for indoors and outdoors | Research on what creative work is nowadays | Graphical representation of competition work Solution: Designing a ‘Creative Village’ open round the clock | Access with a mobile app | Developing an algorithm based on the movements of the working person
Competition
Work
Solution: Creating a minimalistic building corresponding with the surroundings | The medialibrary based on underground level | Library on above ground levels |
Save Read
Master’s
the some
city! books
Thesis
2016-2017
The City In the year 2050 67 percent of world’s population will be living in cities. City sprawls and overflows on the outskirts. Desolate in the center. Inhabitants become addicted to cars. City forces them to struggle everyday in traffic jams. Long journey times, Home - work. Work -home. Always in a rush. Always in a hurry. Cracow Cracow suffocates. In 2016 188 days of the year the european air pollution norm was exceeded. The mandated daily norm is a maximum of 50 µg/m3. It can not be exceeded more often than 35 days per year. The green areas cover 9 percent of the city. Cracow lacks public spaces. Lacks trees. The city center is dominated by tourists. Suburbs are for inhabitants. The Book A Book annually. Even less - that is the number of books read by the average polish citizen. In 2016 thirty seven out of one hundred subjects read one or more books in a year. Compared to the year 2015 the number of people using a library reduced by two percentage points (from 13% to 11%). The Issue of Rajska street area The issue contains three elements - city, Cracow and books. The issue looks inconspicuous viewed from the perspective of a passer-by. It is long, narrow. Chaotic. Only from height can one feel its real scale. Hundreds of meters of length. The issue is a plot situated next to the Voivodina Public Library, that, like a wound in the city’s fabric, breaks it and divides it. There is nothing on the plot. Except for parking places for 60 cars and three food trucks. The issue has been waiting for a solution for years. The Solution The solution might be a step to cure the city. The solution for ventilation of the city - by designing a park. Saving the book by creating a place for it within the city and in citizens’ minds. Healing the city fabric by orderly organized and thoughtful urban decisions. Contribution to the improvement of inhabitants’ lives by creating a space for them, where they would be at the center of the design.
Save Read
Master’s
the some
city! books
Thesis
2016-2017 skylight
Save the city! Read some books - project The building is a catalyst of activities. Open for the needs of city's inhabitants. Available 24 hours. The area is designed to become a connecting space between, presently, separated parts of the city. It should become a green bridge between Karmelicka street, which now serves as a linear, transit street and Dolnych Młynów street. Connection between Rajska street and Michałowskiego street. The project proposes a creation of an open pedestrian passage by removing part of the Public Library facade. Project convention is to create a sense of a playful environment by forming new spatial spaces filled with greenery that surprise the visitor with its variety. By introducing such a diversity of spatial variables, the complexity of spaces will encourage visitors to wander and discover the space. The park will be not only a simple passage between streets but also an astonishing pathway through ever-changing architecture, full of secret passages and small yards that would invite one to explore them.
observation deck
movable panels
computer lab
auditorium
books storage
books storage
reading room
reading room
Save the city! Read some books - Cracow Garden of Culture Building. The building is a catalyst - open for the always changing needs of the inhabitants. That is why it is open 24 hours a day inviting visitors to enter the park. The building would be promoting a link between culture, entertainment and the library. To create a clear message that those three things are indeed connected and worth visiting.
stage
courtyard
restaurant movable panels
loggia
greenery
Publications: Bryła.pl, Kooza/RCH | Best Diploma | Nominated to the competition: Polish Best Diploma 2018
passage to the Karmelicka Street
greenery square
stage
observation deck
water
water basin
water basin
passage to the Rajska Street sculpture - dominant
entrance to the underground car park
Milano MegaWatt - prof. Stefano Boeri Design
Workshop
2016-2017
Dwelling Milano Mega Watt creates an alternative way of living, and it is able to produce, collect and improve the city in terms of energy. In order to attain self sufficiency the building should provide a balance between the number of inhabitants that might live there and the amount of primary needs that they would require. Therefore, defining at a first time the primary vital needs of one single person, it was possible to determine the dimensions of the building and, subsequently, to manage the relationship between these various spaces. The idea is to design hybrid solutions, generated by the merging of needs related with human activities (housing, education, commercial, production, infrastructure, health) combined with natural entities able to feed and provide for people’s survival (farming, livestock, water storage). The result is a series of eighteen different typologies of hypothetical livable spaces.
The project develops imaginary spaces, beginning from archetypal shapes, creating a real energetic source in each yard, giving power to Milan.
Milano MegaWatt - prof. Stefano Boeri Design
4.5m2
Workshop
2016-2017
25 m2
1 m2
5 m2
15 m2
35 m2
Anthropocene Humankind is facing, in our time, a new geological Era, the Anthropocene, a period definitively marked by the unrestrained exploitation of natural resources which is causing now,and will cause in the future, several severe environmental problems. The project is a proposition of how the future may look like in the year 2117. Milano Mega Watt proposes an experimental way of living, placed in Scali Milano – the abandoned railway system, trying to balance the cohabitation between mankind, nature and animals. It offers an innovative possibility of coexistence that might generate, at the same time, both improvements to daily life and worrying results. Hence, in this hypothetical and provocative vision the border between utopia and dystopia seems to be rather weak.
6 m2
9 m2
12 m2
FARMING
LIVESTOCK
WATER STORAGE
HOUSING
EDUCATION
HEALTHCARE
INFRASTRUCTURE
COMMERCIAL
PRODUCTION
Area needed to provide one person with all the primary needs
Yard area
Self-sufficiency
Built area
Greco-Breda
Used area
Regoredo
604 ppl
Assuming the future necessity of being self-sufficient in order to have the possibility of providing for ourselves, each yard is going host a massive structure becoming a new landmark for Milan. “Boosting the city” is the main role of these experimental spaces, offering vital services for people in order to answer to the huge lack of resources that humankind is going to face. This structure could be considered as a “city in the city”, proposing itself as a source of life.
Publications:
Porta Genova
480 ppl
Lambrate
Porta Romana
816 ppl
368 ppl
1180 ppl
Farini 1900 ppl
Calculation of the area that can be used according to Accordo di Programma and the designed area
FARINI 1990 ppl
GRECO-BREDA 604 ppl
LAMBRATE 816 ppl
REGOREDO 480 ppl
PORTA ROMANA 1180 ppl
PORTA GENOVA 368 ppl
SAN CRISTOFORO 0 ppl
4750 m2
15100 m2
20400 m2
12000 m2
29700 m2
9200 m2
x
950 m2
3020 m2
4080 m2
2400 m2
5940 m2
1840 m2
x
28500 m2
9060 m2
12240 m2
7200 m2
17820 m2
5520 m2
x
17100 m
5436 m
7344 m
4320 m
10692 m
3312 m
2
x
2
2
2
2
2
22800 m2
7248 m2
9792 m2
5760 m2
14256 m2
4416 m2
x
11400 m2
3624 m2
4896 m2
2880 m2
7128 m2
2208 m2
x
66500 m2
21140 m2
28560 m2
16800 m2
41580 m2
12880 m2
x
1900 m2
604 m2
816 m2
480 m2
1180 m2
368m2
x
8550 m2
2718 m2
3672 m2
2160 m2
5346 m2
1656 m2
x
SOLAR ENERGY
3042 kW
646 kW
532 kW
435 kW
1846 kW
828 kW
x
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
4307 kW
1428 kW
1282 kW
1133 kW
2010 kW
872 kW
x
LEVELS
13
24
31
27
14
11
x
HEIGHT
52 m
96 m
124 m
108 m
56 m
44 m
x
Kooza/RCH
Calculation of the square meters needed to provide self sufficiency in each Yard
Hybrid buildings and their functions
Numer of hybrids per megastructure
Media in
Bachelor
Libray Tarnów
thesis
2014-2016
Location The project is situated 300 meters from Tarnów’s main market square. Located near the historical defensive wall from the XVth century and the Small Stairs which join the area with the level of the square. What is distinctive are the surroundings - a baroque Church and a monastery from XVIIth century, the brick wall and the Stairs.
Task The design was meant to focus on emphasizing the historical values of the site - the presence of the defence wall and the Small Stairs. The newly designed architecture had to create a harmonious composition with existing buildings. As an addition to the city’s fabric the Media Library building had to provide an outstanding visual values that corresponded with the XVIIth century housing surrounding it. It was a priority to create a space that would attract the inhabitants of the city and provide a new meeting place for the community.
Action The most important decision was the localisation of the building. It had to continue the street frontage and at the same time create the space to reveal the wall. The width of the building is the same as the width of the gable wall of the building next to it, which creates a foreground between the Media Library and the Wall. By excavating the ground near the wall a new level was created with an entrance to the building situated on the lower level. Another challenge was the logical composition of the functions inside of the building. The goal was to create a sequence of spaces on the above ground level that change its functions from the quietest to the loudest as a visitor travels upwards from the first floor. On the underground level a large public space was created with a multipurpose conference room, spaces for children and multimedia facilities.
Media in
Bachelor
Libray Tarnów
thesis
2014-2016 Level 0
Result The Media Library building was created as a space for public dialogue and communication. It was supposed to be the place where the old - symbolised by the renovated defence wall and the Stairs meets the new. Where technology - on the underground level - meets culture - on the aboveground levels. Natural surroundings, like the mountains seen from the terrace, meet the city. The Media Library creates a space for new energy in the city - a place where all the citizens can find a place for themselves. From quiet library rooms, a cozy cafe to noisy, full of people gaming spaces.
Communication
Public space
WC
Attendance area
Level +1
Function The inside of the building was created based on two logical systems - horizontal and vertical. The first one divides the space of each level into three parts - the public utility area that fills two thirds of the building and is located on the east side, the communication area and the attendance area. This division is visible also on the facade - the south-east part of the building is filled with light and colour to attract the visitors. It is welcoming them to come inside and use the building. The west part is enclosed with heavy walls - that is the place for attendance area where the offices and other facilities are situated. The communication area is located on the north side where the smallest amount of sunlight is provided.
Level +2
Level +3
Prizes: Grand Prix and First Prize in student’s competition organised by city of Tarnów Exhibitions: Tarnów of the future | 12.12.2017-10.01.2018 | Bema20, Tarnów Best Student’s Works Exhibition | 17.03.2016-8.04. 2016 | Tarnowskie Centrum Kultury, Tarnów
Level -1
Creative Future
Competition
Cave workplace
Work
2017-2017
With our project we answer the question of what work means to young people. The idea of work has developed from an inevitable necessity to passion and way of living. Nowadays the goal of working is to be as efficient as possible and to finish the job in the shortest amount of time. That is why workers understand the need to exercise and relax during working hours. Young workers feel the need to have a flexible environment around them that can be adapted to their needs. The Creative Cave Project is like that – the organic, undefined form responds to the need for flexibility. Because of its timeless form it can be easily placed in the fabric of the city. The project is as flexible as the people working inside – helping to self-determine and self-define one’s way of working. Whether one wants to work on his or her own? Or maybe surrounded by others? To have an open or closed Cave? At what time does one want to start work? Nowadays people have a need to make decisions and redefine space to make it as ergonomic and comfortable as possible. The shape of the Cave was dictated by the need to provide a wide variety of functions in the smallest area possible. That is why a parametric design has been used. After analysing the types of activities that can be done inside the pavilion we designed an algorithm that organized the space in the most efficient way. The space created is designed for two types of work in a standing and a sitting position; with desks whose positions can be modified. It provides a space for exercise inside and a hammock where workers may relax and a place for leisure activities outside. The Creative Cave project is dedicated to freelancers whose remote nature of work allows them to spend their working time outside a traditional office. To meet the expectations of these people the Creative Villages have been placed in easy-accessible parts of Cracow. Their shape is based on the archetypical model of the common space – round piazza surrounded by pavilions. Each of the pavilions provides a personal space for work and leisure. The Caves are formed in a modular pattern that may be easily transported and distributed all over the city. The exemplary positioning shown in the project was chosen after analysing the public transport and frequency of use as an interchanging communication node.
Creative Future
Competition
Cave workplace
Work
2017-2017
The Village is located in the city centre, on the verge of a public park and a lively crossroads. On one side of the project two main roads intersect each other providing easy accessibility by tram, bus, car or bike, on the other the tranquil park invites us to enjoy sunlight by the lake surrounded by greenery. The main market square of Cracow is only five minutes by bike from the Village. On the other side of the road users may find cafes, bars and shops.
Mobile app
The Creative Cave is supported by a mobile app which allows booking of the workplace. Among seven pavilions in each village six are designed to be rented for a long period of time, the remaining one is to be rented only for a few hours. It creates a space where each day the long-term workers may meet somebody new. It would attract students from nearby universities to join the Creative Cave just for a few hours and will prevent it from becoming an enclave. The Creative Cave app allows its users to book and pay for the rental of the Cave. It also opens the chosen Cave for the user, which means that the access to the workplace is flexible and does not need any scheduled hours of working time. The mobile system also helps with sharing the Cave with other users. One of the most important features that a modern, creative workplace should have is to provide workers with good food and coffee. That is why the Creative Cave App may be used to order food and drinks from chosen restaurants. Users may also request and rent a coffee machine or other amenities for their personal use in the Caves.
Creative Village | plan
The Graphical representation of the project emphasizes the new way of perceiving work. Bright and exotic colours have been used in order to be reminiscent of a carefree summer and the joy of holidays and travel. The strong colour palette highlights the statement that work nowadays is associated with passion and excitement. The Creative Cave Project is a space where passionate people who love life meet to work together.
Authors: Maria Izdebska: schemes | graphical representation of elevatons, plans and sections schemes | Sonia Kwiatkowska: Parametric algorithm | Shape of the pavilions | Mobile app scheme | Plans | Opening scheme |
Sitution
Section | Accessibility scheme
Section | Outdoors leisure
Section | Accessibility scheme
Section | Indoors | sitting area
Plan | Accessibility scheme
Section | Indoors | standing area
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